Lilah ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Sox, I think you might be onto something, as Vellum seems to be making more sense now that I'm on cold medicine.
I'm in the middle section, where Seamus is Prometheus.
You're right, it has the whole Assyrian/Sumerian me is equivalent to computer code thing from Stephenson, and there's also a certain amount of similarity to Illuminatus. I am also reminded of the rpg Nobilis, but maybe that's the Scots-Irish authorship.
My favorite line from the terrible, terrible romance novel I picked up for free:
They stared at each other, lone-wolf amber mating briefly with angelic blue innocence.
I thought for a second I'd tripped into Nikita fic.
That's pretty horrible. But it doesn't involve psychic bestiality whatever, so I've heard worse.
That's hilarious.
Anyone else in the middle of an HP re-read? I just started HP&GOF this morning. With just about a month before #7, I have the three longest books left to read!
I just started Sorceror's Stone last night! I figure if I can read one book a week, I'll be on track to finish HBP by mid-July, just in time for Deathly Hallows.
They stared at each other, lone-wolf amber mating briefly with angelic blue innocence
I...so they're eyefucking? Wow.
Kathy, that's a great idea. I probably will do the HP re-read AFTER Book 7 comes out. Although given that I'm expecting the worst (no spoilers, just pessimistic), I might be re-reading the series through my tears...
Anyone else in the middle of an HP re-read? I just started HP&GOF this morning. With just about a month before #7, I have the three longest books left to read!
I need to start mine - alas, my books are in storage. Maybe I can borrow them from my cousins.
I'm taking HBP with my next week - figure it would be good airplane reading.
The new book comes out on CJ's birthday. He is quite excited - though he has already declared the reading order within the family.
OK, so what I said about Vellum before still stands, but it's moving way up in my estimation. It's the most referential and yet original thing I've read in a while. In addition to the nods Sox and I already mentioned, there are heavy Lovecraft refs, light William Gibson refs, John Constantine is name-checked, and I think Burroughs' Mars series also, but subtly.
Then you've got real-world stuff like Guy Fawkes (and not a little V for Vendetta) and Iraq, and underlying everything are the great myth-cycles, from Inanna and Metatron to Odin and Narcissus.
The author gives you all these snapshots and seemingly expects you to connect them to create a cohesive story...and yet, his characters discuss schizophrenia and apophenia and the fallacy of seeing connections where there are none. Yet there are.
It's like the literary equivalent of modern fusion cuisine.