Do you think he'll kill her?
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Hayden - Jun 05, 2007 8:11:09 am PDT #2734 of 28452
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Gris - Jun 05, 2007 9:04:34 am PDT #2735 of 28452
Hey. New board.
I think LibraryThing combined with Delicious Library on my Macbook is going to be a beautiful thing. I may have my weekend planned (up to the Tony Awards, that is)
ETA: Oh yeah, I came in here to say that this thread inspired me to start reading a lot of Lois McMaster Bujold. I finished the Young Miles compendium ( The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, and "The Mountains of Mourning") in about a day and a half. They were very good. I'm about 50 pages into the first novel in the i Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem compendium ( Cetaganda is the original title) now.
I had forgotten how much I love a well-written space opera. I can really fall into these characters, and I'm even starting to figure out the politics of the universe.
Dana - Jun 05, 2007 9:05:43 am PDT #2736 of 28452
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Gris, have you seen that Salon is doing a week of articles leading up to the Tonys? It's nice for me, since I'm not able to see the nominated musicals.
Steph L. - Jun 05, 2007 9:45:51 am PDT #2737 of 28452
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm in the middle of The Vor Game right now. The one shortcoming is not enough Cordelia.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 9:51:02 am PDT #2738 of 28452
Always Anti-fascist!
Don't know, Corwood, dude...you're in Texas now. Does she need killin'?
Hayden - Jun 05, 2007 9:54:49 am PDT #2739 of 28452
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Does she need killin'?
Oh, I don't know about that, but I'd approach any personal meeting with McCarthy with extreme caution.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 10:13:23 am PDT #2740 of 28452
Always Anti-fascist!
keep one chambered, huh? I have to confess I've never gotten through one of his books.
Hayden - Jun 05, 2007 11:25:17 am PDT #2741 of 28452
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh, I love his work. He's like a feral Faulkner.
hippocampus - Jun 05, 2007 11:50:08 am PDT #2742 of 28452
not your mom's socks.
Raq - you are totally on to something. I would have posted earlier, but things are nuts here. It's a tough read, but worth it. Going back and reading the first few chapters again helped. Where are you now?
Ink (the next one - really beautiful covers) is harder to focus through, seems a lot more scattered. And there are a lot of morality play bits that I'm having trouble with right now. I can't imagine what it took to write this.
Problem now is that I couldn't sleep one night, and Ink was too scattered... so I picked up China Mieville and now I've got a short story about feral alleys & streets (a really good story) all twined with the characters in Ink. Bad reader. No colophon.
eta: reads the word 'feral' in Corwood's post. blinks. You're right about him being a feral Faulkner - I'm just amazed that that word is having itself a mini-threadfest.
Volans - Jun 05, 2007 11:57:35 am PDT #2743 of 28452
move out and draw fire
Where are you now?
Almost done. I have like 6 pages to go, but the toddler has identified the competition and tries to kill the book every time I pick it up.
References I left out of my list include The Rule of Four and Gormenghast.
I love the idea of a feral Faulkner, but I suspect I would hate the experience.