Forking ducks
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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 - Jul 20, 2021 11:21:08 am PDT #26815 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Jul 20, 2021 12:38:01 pm PDT #26816 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Do I want to read Lord Foul's Bane? It's marked down to $2.99 and I recognize the title as Something I've Heard Of but that's about it.
Dana - Jul 20, 2021 12:53:43 pm PDT #26817 of 28452
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I would not recommend it, personally. It's very Sad White Guy and his Important Problems.
-t - Jul 20, 2021 12:55:10 pm PDT #26818 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is kind of what I suspected, thank you for confirming
Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 2:21:21 pm PDT #26819 of 28452
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm pretty sure I read most of that series (if it's the one I'm thinking of ... possibly another by the same author). Offhand, I'd say avoid it.
Dana - Jul 20, 2021 3:12:24 pm PDT #26820 of 28452
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I feel like Jessica might have opinions about it? Or has read it more recently than I? I just remember that the dude starts with leprosy and gets more depressed from there.
Cashmere - Jul 20, 2021 5:06:39 pm PDT #26821 of 28452
Now tagless for your comfort.
Spoiler Alert was a treat, and it's getting a sequel later this year!
YAY! I loved it. I need to go pre-order the sequel. It definitely hit me in a fandom way, sort of like William Gibson's Pattern Recognition did.
I just discovered THIS and can't wait to order the audiobook. YUMMY!
I just finished the audio for Winter's Orbit and am totally in love. I read the book but picked up the audio when I found out that the narrator worked on Alexis Hall's For Real and his voice is like buuuuuuuuutttter.
Calli - Jul 21, 2021 12:26:22 pm PDT #26822 of 28452
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Lord Foul's Bane
Oh, yeah, that guy. I picked it up back when I was reluctant to not finish a book. I did not finish it. Picture Heinlein if he wrote in fantasy instead of SF and made whining his narrative mode of choice.
Jessica - Jul 21, 2021 12:33:44 pm PDT #26823 of 28452
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I feel like Jessica might have opinions about it? Or has read it more recently than I?
It doesn't sound familiar but I think I may have tried to read another Donaldson series and bailed on it? (Or maybe it was this one and I bailed so hard I forgot it existed?)
-t - Jul 21, 2021 1:40:58 pm PDT #26824 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, huh, the book I vaguely remember reading that I know I disliked but can't remember the title or the author but sort of think might have been Donaldson was handed to me by a big Heinlein fan. So that tracks.
This is the problem with just poking around and saying to myself "I know that name, maybe I should read this one" because sometimes I know the name because I definitely do not want to read their stuff but that part of gets lost in my terrible-to-nonexistent mental filing system