I'm in the middle of The Vor Game right now. The one shortcoming is not enough Cordelia.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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."
Steph L. - Jun 05, 2007 9:45:51 am PDT #2737 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 9:51:02 am PDT #2738 of 28176
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 28176
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 28176
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 28176
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 28176
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 28176
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.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 12:24:40 pm PDT #2744 of 28176
Always Anti-fascist!
Second that emotion, Raq. I expect that's why I don't stick it through. Wonder what the regular Oprah audience thinks about that(Not to slam them: Pre-Buffista, I was a pretty devoted Oprah viewer. IJS, though, that it used to be that relatability used to be a fairly strong part of Oprah's choices, and now ??)
Toddson - Jun 05, 2007 12:25:58 pm PDT #2745 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
erika, have you ever read anything by Benjamin M. Schutz? I was reading an old one of his I picked up at a second-hand book sale and was thinking you'd like him.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 12:26:52 pm PDT #2746 of 28176
Always Anti-fascist!
Really? Is he a sick fucker, too?