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.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 10:47:11 am PDT #2524 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JohnSweden - Apr 11, 2007 11:23:24 am PDT #2525 of 28342
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 28342
"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 28342
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 28342
"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 28342
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 28342
"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 28342
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 28342
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.
Hayden - Apr 11, 2007 7:14:43 pm PDT #2533 of 28342
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lucky mud, lucky me. Although I felt like I outgrew the man's books a while back, I read everything he wrote before I was 22.