Oooh, Scott Westerfeld! Good call!
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
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."
Consuela - Apr 11, 2018 7:51:34 pm PDT #25029 of 28200
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
EpicTangent - Apr 12, 2018 7:39:51 am PDT #25030 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Mercedes Lackey? Valdemar series was my first thought.
Aren't her books chock full of sex?
Some Fade to Black stuff, I certainly don't remember anything graphic. Granted, I haven't read any Valdemar for several years now.
I wouldn't say chock-full, but I'd think twice about letting a kid read the third volume of the trilogy.
3rd volume of which trilogy? Some are more problematic than others, IIRC.
Oooh, Scott Westerfeld! Good call!
Seconded.
Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2018 9:14:38 am PDT #25031 of 28200
brillig
3rd volume of which trilogy?
Vanyel. I wouldn't want to be the parent trying to explain what the bandits are doing to Vanyel to a confused kid.
EpicTangent - Apr 12, 2018 11:49:59 am PDT #25032 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
No, Vanyel, and Arrows of the Queen, I would not care to give to a tween. The Owl one, and the Dragons, I think, are okay (off the top of my head).
Toddson - Apr 12, 2018 12:01:25 pm PDT #25033 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Andre Norton? has anyone mentioned her?
Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2018 12:13:21 pm PDT #25034 of 28200
brillig
I adore Andre Norton.
DavidS - Apr 12, 2018 5:51:56 pm PDT #25035 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of course the Buffistas would have this subject covered!
Kate, if he liked Lud-In-The-Mist, and enjoyed Tolkien then he might be able to handle some of the other books from the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. (The "adult" part back then was meant merely to distinguish them from kid tales, not super sexy times. It's mostly 19th century and early 20th century stuff).
I was particularly charmed by Lord Dunsany's stories from that era and his classic novel The King of Elfland's Daughter.
Here's a complete list of the series and you'll see many titles you know well, and others that would probably be new:
Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2018 6:34:08 pm PDT #25036 of 28200
brillig
Ooh, Katherine Kurtz' Deryni series! Kurtz was big in the Society for Creative Anachronism in its early days, and it was a fun game for SCAers to read the books and identify whose garb and devices had been lifted for the characters in the books.
bennett - Apr 13, 2018 7:58:18 am PDT #25037 of 28200
Also, Peter Beagle's books, Evangeline Walton's books based on the Mabinogion, and CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books. Cherryh also wrote some fantasies based on Russian fairy tales, but I haven't read them.
Kat - Apr 13, 2018 8:20:53 am PDT #25038 of 28200
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Have any of you read In Other Lands yet?