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.
'Hell Bound'
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."
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.
17776
Easily one of the best things I read last year.
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.
17776 - whoa
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
I don't remember hearing about it, but that doesn't mean much. The summary looks interesting.
meara, that whole part was where I was like, this is horrible.
We talked about the movie version of The Girl With All the Gifts in Movies.
Yeah, the part where Roxy's dad transplants her skein into her brother was horrifying and made me so angry. Although at least the brother does get a satisfyingly awful comeuppance.