Seconding PCs Karen Memory rec. love this book. There's no (6ft tall master spy) reason for me to be biased. Nope.
You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
hippocampus - Mar 02, 2015 2:23:22 am PST #23045 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
meara - Mar 02, 2015 6:37:41 am PST #23046 of 28342
Biased indeed--I've met you! I know you're a six foot tall master spy!!
juliana - Mar 02, 2015 4:01:26 pm PST #23047 of 28342
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I'd be happy to try taking War and Peace on again if people are interested in forming some sort of support group for it.
I'm reading the Louise & Alymer Maude translation [link] - free for Amazon Kindle, so the price was right. The links to the French translations don't work in my version, but my French is enough to understand what's being said. More or less.
(Which reminds me, juliana, I need to give you the ARC! Tor sent me a copy, so you can just have the ARC to read and treasure.)
Sweet!
My mother gave me The Story of Edward Sawtelle, which I should read, but I'm not really in the mood for Hamlet retold. Richard III retold, sure.
amych - Mar 12, 2015 6:14:57 am PDT #23048 of 28342
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Just saw on his official FB page that Terry Pratchett has died. I feel like this day calls for a long wallow in a big pile of Discworld rather than, say, any kind of useful work.
Connie Neil - Mar 12, 2015 6:18:22 am PDT #23049 of 28342
brillig
Did he take his own way out, or was it something else?
Vale, Sir Terry.
Connie Neil - Mar 12, 2015 6:23:40 am PDT #23050 of 28342
brillig
Moist Von Lipwick would be the perfect successor to Vetinari.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2015 6:28:21 am PDT #23051 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh, man. I've only read Good Omens, and always meant to jump into the Discworld books.
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2015 7:19:57 am PDT #23052 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
STEPH.
You have so much wonderfulness ahead of you. My first was Lords and Ladies, but there are plenty of good entry points.
I'm still numb over here, trying to get to work. I just got a four-month rejection and it barely did anything to me since I'm already down in a hole.
-t - Mar 12, 2015 7:22:54 am PDT #23053 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The official announcement tweet is pretty good.
Toddson - Mar 12, 2015 8:21:45 am PDT #23054 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I remember reading the first of the Discworld books when it first came out, but never went any further with them. I do, however, have a stack of them at home that were freecycled in my building (we have a shelf and people leave stuff there for anyone who wants it).