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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."

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Steph L. - Jun 07, 2019 11:55:56 am PDT #25389 of 28197

I look more rad than Lutheranism

I just finished Seanan McGuire's Middlegame. It is definitely one of the most ambitiously complex books she has done yet, and felt like one of the longest too. I recommend it for sure.

I read it in almost one sitting (I hit about 11:30 p.m. and couldn't keep my eyes open, so I had to finish the last 50 pages or so the next day). I really enjoyed it.

-t - Jun 12, 2019 9:55:34 am PDT #25390 of 28197

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Based on y'all's enthusiasm, I listened to Middlegame over the weekend. I think I'm going to have to read it again - by about halfway through I was pretty sure I'd missed a lot of what-is-even-happening clues.

I'm of two minds about Amber Benson's reading. Some of her character vocal choices were more distracting than immersive for me.

Steph L. - Jun 12, 2019 10:27:36 am PDT #25391 of 28197

I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm not sure I would be able to follow Middlegame if I listened to it. There were a lot of places I had to flip back and forth between chapters to follow a thread.

-t - Jun 12, 2019 11:38:34 am PDT #25392 of 28197

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, that was a problem.

sj - Jun 12, 2019 11:43:11 am PDT #25393 of 28197

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm still doing my Dresden Files listen. I'm currently on book 7 of the series. And I finished reading Jade City this week, which I highly recommend.

Gris - Jun 12, 2019 12:33:45 pm PDT #25394 of 28197

Hey. New board.

I don't love Seanan McGuire's books on audio generally, and Middlegame needs text.

Though Amber Benson doing the reading is amazing since the first Seanan McGuire's fiction j ever read was Willow/Tara.

Toddson - Jun 12, 2019 12:39:46 pm PDT #25395 of 28197

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I have Middlegame, but haven't gotten to it yet. I cannot deal with audiobooks but I am looking forward to the print version.

Jesse - Jun 18, 2019 5:51:03 am PDT #25396 of 28197

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just started reading Stranger In A Strange Land for the first time (I know), and I'm sure I'm supposed to have strong feelings about it, but what are they again? (No spoilers!)

Fred Pete - Jun 18, 2019 6:01:29 am PDT #25397 of 28197

Ann, that's a ferret.

Jesse, I haven't read Stranger or any other Heinlein in a very long time. But my memory is that Stranger has the typical Heinlein strengths and weaknesses -- strong and well-developed ideas, interesting and eccentric male characters, female characters with little more dimension than Playboy bunnies.

-t - Jun 18, 2019 6:07:04 am PDT #25398 of 28197

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, you get to add "grok" to your vocabulary, if it wasn't already there. I think you are past the target age to be really wowed by the philosophy. Parts of it are, of course, enraging, but not as much as some of his stuff. Or that's how I remember it from reading it 30+ years ago

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