Yeah, but on the other hand I kind of like "Falling Free".
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Typo Boy - Apr 09, 2007 6:36:06 pm PDT #2507 of 28175
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Consuela - Apr 09, 2007 7:19:06 pm PDT #2508 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Young Miles and Miles Errant are what you want. Find a copy of Borders of Infinity on Half.com. I am trying to remember if there's any reason to reread Cetaganda, and nothing comes to mind.
I am waiting for the Ivan novel, damnit. Because Yuletide, marvey as it is, is not scratching my jones.
Oh, hey, speaking of fic... Ginger? Do you know if there's any documented instance of CJ Cherryh taking a position on fanfiction? Because I started riffing on a Supernatural crossover with Cherryh's Nighthorses novels with a pal, and it's awesome, but someone said that CJC hates fic, and we'd hate to have to abandon it...
Emily - Apr 09, 2007 7:45:41 pm PDT #2509 of 28175
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I know the Willis was a sideline to the Vorkosigan conversation, but I wanted to chime in as loving To Say Nothing of the Dog, and then loving Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, which is where Willis got the title and inspiration. Kind of depends on a love for the early-20th-century foppish-young-men-at-Oxbridge genre, which I have in spades. Er, if it's a genre.
meara - Apr 10, 2007 1:41:40 pm PDT #2510 of 28175
I tried reading "To Say Nothing...", and didn't get it. And then I read Domesday Book (LOVED), and then REread To Say Nothing, and liked it much better. I think I need to go back and re-read Belwether, though.
Ginger - Apr 10, 2007 1:49:31 pm PDT #2511 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"To Say Nothing of the Dog" is much improved by having read Dorothy Sayers, not to mention "Three Men in a Boat."
brenda m - Apr 10, 2007 3:23:17 pm PDT #2512 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hmm. I loved "To Say Nothing", can't stand Sayers, and have never read "Three Men." Which is not to say you're wrong.
I read Domesday so long ago I barely remember it. Must dig that one out again.
-t - Apr 10, 2007 3:41:19 pm PDT #2513 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Domesday and "Fire Watch" were the beginning of my Willis love. Lincoln's Dreams was interesting but unsatisfying. I don't think I've been disappointed in anything of herssince.
To Say Nothing of the Dog made me want to read Three Men in a Boat, but I haven't, yet. I think I've read all the Sayers there is, but ages ago, so I don't really know how much stuck. I don't think I could dredge up a single detail from any particular work. But that might have been enough familiarity to inform To Say Nothing, I don't know.
Dana - Apr 10, 2007 5:25:38 pm PDT #2514 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
can't stand Sayers
t gasp
t shuns Brenda
Ginger - Apr 10, 2007 5:43:47 pm PDT #2515 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
can't stand Sayers
Maybe we can get you therapy.
Emily - Apr 10, 2007 6:41:13 pm PDT #2516 of 28175
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hmm, yeah, The Doomsday Book does provide some explanation that comes in at least handy for To Say Nothing of the Dog.