Ah.
I should have guessed - but I quit the Anne Rice habit some time ago.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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."
sumi - Oct 28, 2014 12:31:05 pm PDT #22794 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Rayne - Oct 28, 2014 1:08:43 pm PDT #22795 of 28343
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Then again, sumi, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear are always worth a re-read!
Consuela - Oct 28, 2014 5:17:19 pm PDT #22796 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have the new Ancillary novel on my Kindle, but I can't read it until I finish reading So Big by Edna Ferber. Which is really good!
Consuela - Oct 28, 2014 5:17:19 pm PDT #22797 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have the new Ancillary novel on my Kindle, but I can't read it until I finish reading So Big by Edna Ferber. Which is really good!
Jessica - Oct 28, 2014 5:41:49 pm PDT #22798 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ancillary Sword is really really good. I thought Justice lost its way a bit in the final chapter, but this one picks up those plot threads and just runs away with them in a really fun way.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2014 6:28:01 pm PDT #22799 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Which is supposed to be set immediately after Queen of the Damned, which means none of the body-switching, Lestat goes to Heaven/Hell/trips balls nonsense! Just ... Lestat having been a rock star, being kidnapped and fed super-powerful ancient blood, and nearly helping to destroy most of civilization?
Oh. Oh! Really? I want to read that!
t edit Cool. I'm 206 on the list, with 130 copies. That's not bad. But maybe I should check the ebook list, too. t edit again Okay, added to that list, too. I'm 17 on the list, with 4 copies. I'm curious to see which one turns up first.
meara - Oct 28, 2014 6:33:35 pm PDT #22800 of 28343
Ooh. I've been holding out but I should buy Ancillary Sword.
There are so few things that are legal and available and relaxing, without costing tons or causing a hangover. Books are what I got.
Atropa - Oct 28, 2014 10:00:59 pm PDT #22801 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.
Oh, and it's not set right after QotD, but there's been NO mention of the misguided Mayfair Witches cross-over nonsense from Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.
Rayne - Oct 28, 2014 11:23:33 pm PDT #22802 of 28343
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
The last Anne Rice book I read was Queen of the Damned. Would I be totally lost if I skipped to Prince Lestat?
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2014 3:24:02 am PDT #22803 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.
YES. Woo! Come on, holds list!