I haven't read your story yet, Sunil. But I did buy the Kindle version.
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
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."
WindSparrow - Jun 23, 2015 8:01:25 pm PDT #23411 of 28332
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2015 8:37:36 pm PDT #23412 of 28332
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Speaking of good stuff, I really liked your story, P-C. Fun stuff!
Thanks!! It's been getting a very good response, which is happymaking and confusing. It's my highest-profile release, so I'm waiting for the negative reviews to filter in. But people I don't even know have liked the story, so I hope they go read my other stuff.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2015 6:44:19 am PDT #23413 of 28332
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I've read Naomi Novik's Uprooted at least three times, plus I've read my favorite parts a few more times. This is definitely one of my favorite books of the last few years.
So, what are some good books about Baba Yaga?
Here's one modern interpretation: Wickedly Magical (Baba Yaga) by Deborah Blake.
But I'm leaning towards reading some of the original Russian and Polish folktales about Baba Yaga. This sounds intriguing: Russian Fairy Tales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Any suggestions for other Baba Yaga books? Movies?
-t - Jun 24, 2015 7:03:36 am PDT #23414 of 28332
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That second one looks like a book I read as a kid. If it is the same one, it's got some good stories that have stuck with me.
DavidS - Jun 24, 2015 7:10:36 am PDT #23415 of 28332
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Any suggestions for other Baba Yaga books? Movies?
I.B. Singer has a great, creepy short story about Baba Yaga.
Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2015 8:37:45 am PDT #23416 of 28332
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So, what are some good books about Baba Yaga?
The novelization of John Wick.
hippocampus - Jun 25, 2015 2:20:23 pm PDT #23417 of 28332
not your mom's socks.
REALLY Neal Stephenson, you aren't actually suggesting these things in the second half of your new book to do with genetic inheritance and brain chemistry leading to the destabilization of future cultures, are you? SURELY NOT. I am putting the book down.
Gently.
I am not throwing it against the wall.
Anymore.
Gris - Jun 25, 2015 2:47:22 pm PDT #23418 of 28332
Hey. New board.
I didn't find anything in the second half offensive but it is certainly eye rolly on many levels. He could have done some interesting things with the time jump but...
Point being if you stop now you aren't missing anything amazing. The first half is worth the price of admission (and reminded me of this xkcd [link] which I know means I should read The Martian) but the second half... well I doubt I will read that part again.
It is like the entire Enders Game series in one book. Starts out awesome ends up ridiculous space fantasy that has pretensions of plausibility.
hippocampus - Jun 25, 2015 2:54:05 pm PDT #23419 of 28332
not your mom's socks.
The first half is worth the price of admission
Totally agree. It's a great 500 pages of fabulous disaster after fabulous disaster and people juryrigging survival.
Though I like the gliders (naturally) and the ring / eye is really cool
But
to have the cannibal berserker talk about bipolar/manic depression during the genetic selection debate and then to have the 5k year jump and suddenly there's a quarter of the ring genetically descended from that character marked red and gone politically feral? I am giving this the sideeye more than I've ever given any Stephenson the sideeye. I feel like we know where he stands at least in this book on nature vs. nurture.
also
is the Agent *never* explained?
wow I haven't ranted in so long.
hippocampus - Jun 25, 2015 3:33:51 pm PDT #23420 of 28332
not your mom's socks.
Also...
I thought one char. blew herself up at the end of the council of Eves, but her descendants are on the chart. So confused.
Ack.
Bought Sunil's story and a bunch of others as penance for my sins.