Niska ,'War Stories'
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."
Loved the acronym problem, and how it became a running joke.
And the mouse escaped! Go mouse!
I could read more of Zadie Smith, but now I'm going to read a werewolf Marine romance by a friend of mine. And then maybe Kalpa Imperial, which I have heard good things of.
OK, I just had to vent a little. Co-worker - young man, loves SFF - and it turns out he's never even HEARD of "Dune" ...
Did you whack him with your cane?
Mostly I just gaped and babbled ... told him, "may your crysknife chip and shatter" and sent him a wikipedia link.
At least he hasn't read the recent sequels or prequels or whatever they were. How terrible to only know those - it's just occurred to me that that is possible.
You mean you did not love "Red Princess of Dune"?
I read a few pages of one, something about a Harkonnen in the title, and that was painful enough. I have actively avoided any further exposure.
yeah, I saw the plethora of "sequels" and, well, just couldn't face all those additions ... plus, I figured they wouldn't stand up to the original.
Figured he wouldn't even get THIS.
I read all of the first prequel trilogy, hoping it would get better, and then about fifteen pages into the Butlerian Jihad I just couldn't even anymore.
So I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel on the plane, and it was marvelous. Really, just a great novel. Solid smooth beautiful writing, not too plot-heavy but not slow, interesting characters, and a narrative that weaves future and past and doom and rebirth and art and life. Comments on fame and destiny and family and found-family in wonderful ways.
I just really really liked it, and for a post-apocalyptic story with doomsday cults and superflus, it is remarkably optimistic.