That was brilliant! Well done, Gary.
It's all about the coat.
Host ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
Laura - Jun 03, 2016 4:42:31 am PDT #24009 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
-t - Jun 03, 2016 8:34:25 am PDT #24010 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have been humming that all morning.
DXMachina - Jun 03, 2016 2:38:54 pm PDT #24011 of 28282
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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).
Consuela - Jun 03, 2016 3:38:44 pm PDT #24012 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Gris, try Kate Elliott. She has 3 complete fantasy series, and 2 under way. All very good.
askye - Jun 03, 2016 8:54:01 pm PDT #24013 of 28282
Thrive to spite them
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.
Jesse - Jun 04, 2016 6:39:25 am PDT #24014 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
-t - Jun 04, 2016 12:50:57 pm PDT #24015 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Calli - Jun 04, 2016 12:56:55 pm PDT #24016 of 28282
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just figured that Prince Serge was too much of a dick to bother following cultural naming practices.
Jesse - Jun 04, 2016 1:29:16 pm PDT #24017 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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...)
-t - Jun 04, 2016 1:56:02 pm PDT #24018 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's actually explained pretty well in Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. By, of all people, Ivan.
I just figured that Prince Serge was too much of a dick to bother following cultural naming practices.
I hadn't thought of that. I didn't have the impression that Serg was allowed to have much say in anything to do with Gregor. All I could figure was that it's different for Emperors for some reason, but he's also a Count, so I don't find that really satisfactory.