Giles ,'Selfless'
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."
Pix is me. Witches all the way down.
> Plus, plus, Tiffany Aching, one of the best heroines ever.
THIS IS ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
Co-signed, t-shirt purchased.
Ok, I don't know whether to put this in Lit, Music, or F2F... because Sheryl's Gary just made the most amazing thing and sang it at Balticon, so I'm putting it here because it's book related: [link] (and awesome)
That was brilliant! Well done, Gary.
I have been humming that all morning.
You can't go wrong if you start at either of Guards! Guards! or Equal Rites. The early Rincewind books aren't as good. The Death books are wonderful, but are probably best read after at least some background from some of the others. Same for the industrials (I use a lot of quotes about the guild of Alchemists on my students).
Gris, try Kate Elliott. She has 3 complete fantasy series, and 2 under way. All very good.
I have come to realize I'm not a huge fan of the Discworld series. I like the first one. But Id idn't like Equal Rites that much or the one with Death. I think it was the first one. But I wasn't reading them in a proper order.
mostly the writing style became too much about half way through.
Still thinking Vorkosigans, and at one point in the last couple of weeks, I went looking for Taura fan art to no avail. So I don't know what this is actually about, but I like it for Taura! [link]
Also, there's a guy who I see on my commute some days who could be the physical model for Miles, and I can't decide if I hope he does or doesn't know about the series.
So I don't know what this is actually about, but I like it for Taura!
Good one! I don't know what it's meant to be either, but I like the girliness with the leonine fierceness for Taura.
I'm glad you brought up the Vorkosigans - I find myself still periodically wondering why Gregor is not named Ezar. Maybe mentioning it out loud, as it were, will get it out of my head.
I just figured that Prince Serge was too much of a dick to bother following cultural naming practices.
That is an important question! Which I will now wonder about, but I think Serg=dick is probably the reason. I've also been wondering how Ivan rates a "Lord." Is it from the Vorbarra side somehow? (which, a minute later, I now see is what Wikipedia presumes...)