OMG... Of course Sherman Alexie's "Indian Killer" guarantees I see Hillerman as an insecure, wanna-be bedwetter because that's what his Hillerman-type is like...it really has influenced my view of him. What's a tango pirate?
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
erikaj - Mar 24, 2006 5:20:27 am PST #237 of 28095
Always Anti-fascist!
Beverly - Mar 24, 2006 6:25:06 am PST #238 of 28095
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
What's a tango pirate?
Like a stevedore. Only with a rose in his teeth.
erikaj - Mar 24, 2006 6:53:51 am PST #239 of 28095
Always Anti-fascist!
it would be hard to resist that.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2006 7:33:43 am PST #240 of 28095
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And better footwork.
Strega - Mar 24, 2006 9:42:08 am PST #241 of 28095
Some of the tango pirates were really privateers for the dancing queen.
EpicTangent - Mar 24, 2006 1:35:16 pm PST #242 of 28095
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Some of the tango pirates were really privateers for the dancing queen.
BWAH!
meara - Mar 25, 2006 11:49:15 am PST #243 of 28095
OK, I know a lot of you like the Honor Harrington books. I've been feeling in a very space-opera mood lately, and picked up the first one at the used bookstore the other day, just cracked it open.
Someone please tell me it gets better. I mean, I'm only ten pages in, but...dude. Empathic tree cat? Seriously?
DXMachina - Mar 25, 2006 11:56:47 am PST #244 of 28095
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Someone please tell me it gets better. I mean, I'm only ten pages in, but...dude. Empathic tree cat? Seriously?
Intelligent empathic tree cat...
The first book isn't too bad. I think the second is better.
Jessica - Mar 25, 2006 12:48:58 pm PST #245 of 28095
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I mean, I'm only ten pages in, but...dude. Empathic tree cat? Seriously?
Yeah, that's about as far as I got before I decided I'd be better off just rereading the Vorkosigan series.
Sheryl - Mar 25, 2006 4:49:05 pm PST #246 of 28095
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Oddly, the tree cat didn't bother me. It was the pages and pages of description of battle maneuvers that led me to decide I didn't have any interest in reading the rest of the series.