LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section
James Doohan did a series of three with S. M. Stirling that are pretty good space opera.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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."
dcp - Apr 24, 2007 9:26:53 am PDT #2633 of 28770
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 4:09:54 pm PDT #2634 of 28770
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
Ages ago, Lee recommended a non-fiction book about a shipwreck. Was it In the Heart of the Sea, or something else? [link]
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 4:47:59 pm PDT #2635 of 28770
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nope-- it was a Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. [link]
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 5:02:23 pm PDT #2636 of 28770
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
Cool. I didn't think that was it, but I couldn't remember. Now I have another to read.
When I'm up to another shipwreck, anyway. This one was excellent, really gripping, but harrowing.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2007 8:11:41 pm PDT #2637 of 28770
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ship of Gold is more about the hunt for the shipwreck one hundred years later than it is about the wreck itself. Well, it's about that, but the part I liked the best was about finding it, and the battle over the salvage rights.
Yes, I studied the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in law school. t /geek
... which, consider what I do for a living, is pretty damned ironic. Or prophetic, or something. Something poetic.
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 8:21:32 pm PDT #2638 of 28770
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What she said, though I did enjoy the part leading up to the wreck, too, especially the SF history, and I loved the captain.
sumi - Apr 26, 2007 10:33:36 am PDT #2639 of 28770
Art Crawl!!!
I wanted the deluxe edition of Children of Hurin because of the Alan Lee illustrations but I realized that I couldn't afford it and the regular edition had the classic Tolkien map in it after all - so I got the regular edition.
Guess what? The regular edition is also illustrated by Alan Lee.
hippocampus - Apr 27, 2007 9:52:37 am PDT #2640 of 28770
not your mom's socks.
Sparky suggested I visit over here to ask if anyone's read Vellum or Ink ? Still new to the multithread.
eta: italics
Steph L. - Apr 29, 2007 6:49:42 pm PDT #2641 of 28770
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Finished Barrayar today.
Damn, that was good. Tense, though -- I was holding my breath for, like, the last 1/4 of the book. Good stuff.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2007 7:27:08 pm PDT #2642 of 28770
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I finished a book too! Way too exciting, considering it's not exciting. I just read so rarely these days.
Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. I have to admit, the shenanigans in Swordspoint sometimes went over my head, when they weren't primarily emotional. This one talks down to me more, and I can't say I don't appreciate it.
I think she did a good job of a clueless learning-her-way story without me feeling impatient or scornful. Katherine didn't know some things, and she was going to learn them, but I didn't dislike her or the author for it.
Didn't love the book, but I sure did enjoy it.