I just started reading The Doubt Factory, by Paolo Bacigalupi and I'm loving it so far. (It was released yesterday.) I loved The Windup Girl-- I'm gonna have to reread that soon.
ETA: excellent Boing Boing review: [link]
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
tommyrot - Oct 15, 2014 11:10:30 am PDT #22767 of 28343
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Calli - Oct 24, 2014 4:07:08 pm PDT #22768 of 28343
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've reached the section of Mount Toberead containing The Hunger Games and read the first book. It was really compelling! I can see why the series took off.
Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2014 10:15:07 pm PDT #22769 of 28343
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.
My 92 year old Mom has been reading Gone Girl. She has been laughing a lot and seems to consider it dark comedy. Thoughts?
aurelia - Oct 26, 2014 6:28:49 am PDT #22770 of 28343
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A lot of it is kind of funny. Until it's not.
Strix - Oct 26, 2014 7:23:15 am PDT #22771 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Lots of it IS very darkly funny.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2014 8:37:40 am PDT #22772 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The movie was also pretty funny.
Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2014 8:43:14 am PDT #22773 of 28343
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.
Sounds like I will have to put it on my list.
Gris - Oct 26, 2014 12:31:18 pm PDT #22774 of 28343
Hey. New board.
It's the kind of dark comedy that you're not 100% sure it's okay to be ruefully chuckling at but you do it anyway. I'd definitely put it in that category, heavy on the dark.
Amy - Oct 26, 2014 12:38:31 pm PDT #22775 of 28343
Because books.
What Gris said. And I loved it.
Tom Scola - Oct 26, 2014 3:03:22 pm PDT #22776 of 28343
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I’m watching George R. R. Martin (who is not home writing), live on Tumblr right now.