River ,'Jaynestown'
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."
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.
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.
Holy shit.
I've only ever read Slaughterhouse-Five, but I've been meaning to read more.
So it goes.
sorry - that was inevitable
I'm not surprised. He looked pretty frail on TDS.
Dammit, Hec, I came to edit that in. Heh.
When was he on TDS? Recently?
When was he on TDS? Recently?
Within the last couple months. I bet they throw the clip up at the TDS website.
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.
Yeah, he didn't look (or sound) long for this world.
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.