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.
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
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 12:38:01 pm PDT #26816 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Jul 20, 2021 12:53:43 pm PDT #26817 of 27913
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
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 27913
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 27913
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 27913
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
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 27913
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 27913
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 27913
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
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 27913
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
Toddson - Jul 21, 2021 2:48:47 pm PDT #26825 of 27913
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I find that if I go on Amazon, look up the book and check the sample I can usually figure out if I've read it.