Me, too, Cass. I was thinking of plunging into the wiki.
Any thoughts you'd like to share with the class? I'm not sure I have a lot formulated into words.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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."
DebetEsse - May 26, 2013 5:43:54 am PDT #20821 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.
DavidS - May 29, 2013 11:07:41 am PDT #20822 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Knut just noted on FB that Jack Vance died.
I loved The Dying Earth. One of my alltime favorite fantasies.
Cass - May 29, 2013 3:39:47 pm PDT #20823 of 28370
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Any thoughts you'd like to share with the class? I'm not sure I have a lot formulated into words.
I binge read 5,000 pages. I haven't even begun to figure out what I think of it.
I was doing that thing where you analyze the author but it kinda creeped me out so I tried to avoid it. I wanted to know nothing. As much as possible.
DebetEsse - May 29, 2013 7:17:21 pm PDT #20824 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Huh. You know, this is one time when I didn't have a "Your id is showing..." Reaction, though I did notice a few phrases that the editor let go through more often than I would have ("many and more"/"little and less" for example). I've started reading some fan theories, and there are some I find credible, especially one on Jon's parentage.
Pix - May 29, 2013 7:28:08 pm PDT #20825 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
Huh. Just finished Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. Still trying to figure out what I think about them.
Polter-Cow - May 29, 2013 7:29:38 pm PDT #20826 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is the latter a sequel? I saw the audiobook in the library and thought it was connected to Oryx and Crake somehow. I've been vaguely interested in them.
Strix - May 29, 2013 7:41:52 pm PDT #20827 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
There's a third book in the series coming out in...September?
They ARE a trilogy. I've read O&C several times, as well as TYotF. I quite like Atwood, anyway, and I'll need to re-read them before the last book comes out.
Mebbe I'll suck 'em up in the next few days, and we can have a little geek out over them! That would be fun!
Cass - May 29, 2013 9:04:06 pm PDT #20828 of 28370
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I've started reading some fan theories, and there are some I find credible, especially one on Jon's parentage.
Okay, this I am interested in. I don't know why it's a detail I grabbed onto so tightly but I did. And clearly waiting for GRRM to tell me might never happen.
Huh. You know, this is one time when I didn't have a "Your id is showing..." Reaction
I am trying so hard not to have it. I kinda pretend there isn't an author. Books just magically appeared. From the cabbage patch.
Typo Boy - May 29, 2013 10:10:59 pm PDT #20829 of 28370
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The Dying Earth was a favorite of mine too. Jack Vance was a brilliant and flawed writer. Dying Earth more than any other of his works played to his strengths and not to his weaknesses.
Gorgeous images, marvelous world building, character's revealed whole in a sentence or two. Dying Earth is not a novel in the conventional sense but a series of short stories in a single setting with many characters appearing in more than one story. The Dying Earth is painted so beautifully that it can itself be looked upon as a character in the story.
Typo Boy - May 29, 2013 10:23:31 pm PDT #20830 of 28370
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
There was a line written in praise of Spenser's Faerie Queen I wish I could remember because it fits the Dying Earth so well, something along the lines of "brilliant image after brilliant image unfurled". I don't remember who said it and my damn memory has totally umgopochgied the quote as well, but I wish I could remember it cause that particular bit of praise for Spenser applies perfectly to Dying Earth,