Huh. I had no idea she wrote Trek books. But I think you've just inspired me to put the So You Want to be a Wizard series up next on the to-be-re-read list.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
EpicTangent - Feb 15, 2013 9:32:07 am PST #20443 of 28358
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Gris - Feb 15, 2013 3:44:44 pm PST #20444 of 28358
Hey. New board.
Oh the wizard books! Good stuff. I lost track of them around the eighth book though - eight is too many of most things.
Amy - Feb 15, 2013 5:41:01 pm PST #20445 of 28358
Because books.
I will leave megan's response as my own. I don't think you are prepared for the WTF.
I'm now three-quarters of the way through [Gone Girl], and holy shit. Unprepared is an understatement.
Dana - Feb 15, 2013 6:06:12 pm PST #20446 of 28358
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, I agree about the wizard series. I enjoy them, but they keep getting more and more complicated. Which is true of her Star Trek books as well.
le nubian - Feb 16, 2013 11:45:11 am PST #20447 of 28358
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm now three-quarters of the way through [Gone Girl], and holy shit. Unprepared is an understatement.
And yet, the HSQ increases.
Polter-Cow - Feb 16, 2013 4:12:54 pm PST #20448 of 28358
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Man, I am nearing the end of The Shadowed Sun, and I am having Mark-level reactions to this book.
Pix - Feb 16, 2013 6:37:28 pm PST #20449 of 28358
The status is NOT quo.
I told you those books were awesome.
Polter-Cow - Feb 16, 2013 6:49:21 pm PST #20450 of 28358
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm more into the characters in this book (Hanani especially is way more relatable than Ehiru, and I love her). Though both books could use more Sunanda.
Amy - Feb 17, 2013 5:18:07 am PST #20451 of 28358
Because books.
Finished Gone Girl. Talk about being unprepared for the ending.
I do think there's a lot of really perceptive stuff about relationships in there, despite the WTF of the plot. But it's not actual Amy who has them, it's Diary Amy -- some of the things she writes early on seem very true when it comes to expectations and what happens the longer you know each other.
I also think Nick's decision to stay with her in the end is completely crazy, but when you look at what they've just been through, it makes a horrible kind of sense. And Nick's realizations about what his life would be like without her are also crazy, but they struck me as really honest, too. Some people love the pain, you know?
I was most impressed with the voices throughout -- Nick and Amy both seemed very real to me, maybe because they admitted to so much ugliness and pettiness and violence?
Also not sure how realistically we're supposed to take it. The whole book is so over the top, I think the end makes perfect sense, as megan said. And I've read/edited enough true crime that it doesn't seem that terribly far-fetched, although Nick and Amy are miles smarter than most of the people in those situations.
I have to read her other books immediately.
le nubian - Feb 17, 2013 8:38:53 am PST #20452 of 28358
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, you too see the ending more "favorably" than I did. I really hated it. Makes me wonder if this is how her parents started out .