Buffy ,'Potential'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela- Right?!
But beyond that...it just felt more like fanfic (no offense to anyone meant). Everybody was WAY too verbose and nobody had a distinct voice. Vimes was no fun...he had freakin' SUPERPOWERS for fuck's sake!
It read like somebody else playing in the Discworld sandbox.
Is the new Gail Carriger only available in hardcover right now?
Amy,
You think you know ... what's to come ... what you are. You haven't even begun.
BWAH. Okay then!
I read Snuff, but it was a while ago. I liked it and it felt Pratchett-y to me, but kind of unfinished, as I recall. Like it could have used a couple more passes of editing to tighten it up. But just having Vimes all happy on the boat pleased me a lot. On the whole, I liked Dodger better.
Has anyone else read The Long Earth? It's a collaboration between Pratchett and, um, Stephen Merchant? Someone. Anyway, love the premise but the plot is, well, it reads very much like the first in a series, which I'm sure it is meant to be.
So I finished that Tom Simon novel, The Ends of Earth and Sky (I think?). And I don't think I'll be reading the rest. The writing's not bad, and the voice is fairly clear, but the POV character seems to have no emotional responses to anything. Even when he chooses to do something very dangerous, there's no evident emotional content or inner conflict: he just does it.
It's also really rather derivative. The hero has a wizardly mentor, who leads him up a forbidden mountain and across precipices, fleeing shadowy demonic figures. There's a brilliant macguffin that the hero picks up without knowing what it is. There are orcs and elves and lost gods. Oh, and the hero has Unexpected Talents, lacking only the discipline to put them to use.
Eh. I think I shall go read some Nnedi Okorafor or N. K. Jemisin instead.
Is the new Gail Carriger only available in hardcover right now?
I have no idea, but I just got it from the library yesterday. It's charming.
Oh, I forgot that was coming out!
Looks like my library has ordered it but doesn't have a copy yet ... and now it's on hold for me when it comes in.
Eh. I think I shall go read some Nnedi Okorafor or N. K. Jemisin instead.
Yes! Have you read the Dreamblood books yet? So good! I'm over halfway through The Shadowed Sun, and I think it might be even better than The Killing Moon, although it's more rape-y. I'm more into the characters in this one.
I have The Killing Moon, haven't read it yet.
Dana might appreciate this: one of the Tor bloggers is doing a periodic review of old Paramount Star Trek: TOS tie-in novels.
I am entertained.