Yeah, that was a problem.
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
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."
-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
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
Jesse - Jun 18, 2019 6:30:10 am PDT #25399 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think you are past the target age to be really wowed by the philosophy.
That sounds right!
OK, great -- I couldn't remember if it was now supposed to be awesome or terrible or what.
Toddson - Jun 18, 2019 8:09:34 am PDT #25400 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read it when it was new and I think I probably was in the target range. I remember enjoying it then; in retrospect, yes, it had the typical Heinlein strengths and weaknesses. Not as bad as some of his things, though.
Beverly - Jun 18, 2019 10:52:29 am PDT #25401 of 28197
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
How much did I hate that T.Stark's new Jarvis was named Friday? I may have missed an element of sarcasm, but since I hated Heinlein's Friday, I hated Stark's as a matter of course.