Perdido Street Station is kinda steampunk.
The gay stunt husband keeps agitating at me to read it. I glanced at a couple of pages a few years ago and it didn't grab me, but I probably should give it another try.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'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."
Atropa - Apr 11, 2007 10:44:09 am PDT #2523 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 10:47:11 am PDT #2524 of 28175
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It took a hundred pages for me to feel comfortable in the world and another hundred for it to finally hook me, but once the plot kicks into gear, it's pretty much a rip-roaring ride till the end. I had issues with it overall, but it was good.
JohnSweden - Apr 11, 2007 11:23:24 am PDT #2525 of 28175
I can't even.
Ooh, Neil Stevenson's The Diamond Age. And Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter.
I find Mieville hard slogging, in the same way as I gave up on Gene Wolfe. I know people love their stuff but their purposefully obscurantist prose just doesn't work for me.
Ginger - Apr 11, 2007 6:08:39 pm PDT #2526 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 [link]
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night when in Manhattan. He was 84.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 6:14:39 pm PDT #2527 of 28175
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Holy shit.
I've only ever read Slaughterhouse-Five, but I've been meaning to read more.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 6:15:49 pm PDT #2528 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So it goes.
sorry - that was inevitable
I'm not surprised. He looked pretty frail on TDS.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 6:18:00 pm PDT #2529 of 28175
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dammit, Hec, I came to edit that in. Heh.
When was he on TDS? Recently?
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 6:26:00 pm PDT #2530 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When was he on TDS? Recently?
Within the last couple months. I bet they throw the clip up at the TDS website.
Scrappy - Apr 11, 2007 6:27:41 pm PDT #2531 of 28175
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Damn. Had to run in the other room and tell the DH, who is jamming on guitars with our neighbor. He is a HUGE Vonnegut fan.
brenda m - Apr 11, 2007 6:31:52 pm PDT #2532 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
Yeah, he didn't look (or sound) long for this world.