I read most of it but then kept putting off finishing it because I was scared where it would go and then my library book expired.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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."
meara - Mar 08, 2018 6:02:00 pm PST #24957 of 28200
Amy - Mar 08, 2018 6:33:56 pm PST #24958 of 28200
Because books.
Have any of you read Naomi Alderman's The Power?
I want to, too. I should put it on hold, in fact.
Kat - Mar 08, 2018 6:58:49 pm PST #24959 of 28200
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara, there was a part towards the end that was extremely tiring.
Kate P. - Mar 08, 2018 7:50:10 pm PST #24960 of 28200
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I read The Power, and I have many thoughts! Most of which I am too tired to type up at the moment. I liked a great deal about it, and found it to be a really effective thought experiment in all sorts of ways. Then there were some things that did not work for me at all, including some dull dialogue/characterizations, a confusing timeline, and the disconnect between the images/descriptions of the "artifacts" (like the one speculating about what the "Bitten Fruit" symbol must have meant, on what is clearly an iPhone) and all the descriptions of phones, computers, Facebook, YouTube, etc. in the narrative sections. I couldn't get those two things to square in my mind. But I really enjoyed reading it and thinking about the world and situations she created. I just found it to be such a fascinating concept that I didn't really mind the parts that sort of veered off course.
meara - Mar 09, 2018 4:46:20 am PST #24961 of 28200
yeah, I really enjoyed the concept, and the beginning of the book, but eventually I think I got to the part where the British girl's brother steals her skein via surgery?
And somehow I just couldn't get back to it, kept reading other stuff until it expired.
Jessica - Mar 09, 2018 5:02:54 am PST #24962 of 28200
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
17776
Easily one of the best things I read last year.
EpicTangent - Mar 09, 2018 10:02:13 am PST #24963 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Just read The Girl with All the Gifts. Now I've gotta go back and see what you guys had to say when you all read it!
eta: Except my threadshearching skills are apparently lame and I am defeated in my search. Anybody more skilled than I want to point me towards a date or post number? Thanks ever so.
Burrell - Mar 09, 2018 11:33:26 am PST #24964 of 28200
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
17776 - whoa
EpicTangent - Mar 09, 2018 3:38:00 pm PST #24965 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Okay, I just read/skimmed all of 2014 (it was nice to see ita and Ginger again), and never found a word about The Girl with All the Gifts. I would absolutely swear I remember seeing people talking about it here. Am I imagining it?
edit: friggin' autocorrect
-t - Mar 09, 2018 3:59:32 pm PST #24966 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't remember hearing about it, but that doesn't mean much. The summary looks interesting.