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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."

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zuisa - Feb 24, 2017 4:46:43 am PST #24369 of 28260

call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

Anyone ever read any Guy Gavriel Kay?

I read his Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan last year and they were both so spectacular that I decided I needed to read his entire body of literature.

I just finished The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, and I'm pleasantly surprised by just how much I loved it. It was his first work, and while Tigana and Lions... are these grand sweeping epics, The Summer Tree (book one of the trilogy) literally opens with a bunch of Canadian college kids getting pulled through a portal - and for whatever reason I didn't think portal fiction was my thing. (Apparently it is).

Anyway, my heart is very full of joy and sadness after reading the whole trilogy, and I wanted to recommend any and all of his work to everyone, and know if anyone else has read any!!

-t - Feb 24, 2017 7:33:20 am PST #24370 of 28260

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I read some of those a long time ago but I don't really remember them. IIRC, I liked them but lost track of which titles I had read and which I hadn't (was picking things up pretty much at random at used book stores, mostly), which often stalls out my series reading.

Jessica - Feb 24, 2017 8:22:38 am PST #24371 of 28260

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I read the Fionovar Tapestry ages ago and loved it, but never got into the rest of his work for some reason.

Calli - Feb 24, 2017 8:35:57 am PST #24372 of 28260

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I remember crying over parts of The Summer Tree.

dcp - Feb 24, 2017 9:06:42 am PST #24373 of 28260

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Yeah, good stuff.

It was The Lions of Al-Rassan that made me cry.

zuisa - Feb 24, 2017 9:29:39 am PST #24374 of 28260

call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

Oh man, the battle at the end of Lions.. between Rodrigo Belmonte and Ammar ibn Khairan made me so upset I didn't want to read to see the conclusion.

Such a sad and beautiful story.

msbelle - Feb 25, 2017 10:16:58 am PST #24375 of 28260

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

for anyone doing or considering joining the loose goodreads bookclub thing I started, I have opened discussion for March's book.

Rayne - Feb 25, 2017 4:18:21 pm PST #24376 of 28260

"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

Oh wow, I totally missed this! Congratulations Fran for the Nebula nomination for The Jewel and Her Lapidary!

Strix - Feb 27, 2017 7:38:24 pm PST #24377 of 28260

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I love so much GG Kay. I remember absolutely, full-bore sobbing at pretty much the entire last 1/8th of the last book.

Loved Lions, Tigana, the Sarantium duology, Song for Arbonne, and his first Asian-inspired book. The others, though...I just didn't like the newer ones. That others are so emotionally rich and I just didn't feel much for the characters in the latest ones.

zuisa - Mar 02, 2017 1:37:02 pm PST #24378 of 28260

call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I'm halfway through Code Name Verity and I, uh.... I have a fair feeling I am going to be emotionally devastated by this book.

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