Kaiju Preservation Society
Wil Wheaton's narration in this one made me really dislike the main character, FWIW, but it's a fun listen if you can get past how obnoxiously bro-y he is.
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
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."
Jessica - Oct 19, 2023 12:07:05 pm PDT #27754 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
-t - Oct 19, 2023 12:32:54 pm PDT #27755 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good to know, I will brace myself for that
Jessica - Oct 19, 2023 12:43:09 pm PDT #27756 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I was able to forgive a lot knowing that KPS was Scalzi's 2020 "I can't make any progress on this serious work I started before the pandemic, here is some lighthearted bullshit I wrote over a long weekend" novel. It's bonkers and over the top, but in a fun pandemic-catharsis way.
(I wonder how many authors have books in this extremely niche genre. I know Scalzi has this one, and KJ Charles has Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, but I'm sure they weren't the only ones to break through pandemic writer's block by just giving up and writing a completely different book that year!)
dcp - Oct 19, 2023 1:42:30 pm PDT #27757 of 28067
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Scalzi's Redshirts was a lot of fun.
However, his version of Little Fuzzy made me angry. That series was a favorite of mine as a young teen, and he changed the protagonist from someone I wanted on my side, or on who's team I wanted to be, to someone I wouldn't want to be on the same planet with, while hoping he might never even learn I existed. It was different, and clever, and well-written, and I didn't like it at all.
Toddson - Oct 19, 2023 2:01:43 pm PDT #27758 of 28067
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I don't like audio books, so the characters and narration sound like I want them to. It may make some hard copy books more palatable.
erikaj - Oct 19, 2023 2:27:27 pm PDT #27759 of 28067
Always Anti-fascist!
David Duchovny wrote a pandemic novella, too,
Amy - Oct 19, 2023 2:57:06 pm PDT #27760 of 28067
Because books.
I'm sure they weren't the only ones to break through pandemic writer's block by just giving up and writing a completely different book that year!
Not books, but Fall Out Boy and Pink both released blatantly influenced-by-the-pandemic albums.
-t - Oct 19, 2023 3:35:43 pm PDT #27761 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
However, his version of Little Fuzzy made me angry.
Oh, that might be why I wasn't reading him! I didn't read his version, but I looked at the summary and wasn't happy about it. Not that I remember the Fuzzy books all that well from when I read them but it didn't sound right at all.
I'm sure they weren't the only ones to break through pandemic writer's block by just giving up and writing a completely different book that year!
This will make someone a good doctoral thesis, right? How long do you have to wait for it to be properly academic, I wonder
-t - Oct 19, 2023 3:39:46 pm PDT #27762 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Also, adding Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting to my queue. I keep getting ready to start reading KJ Charles and then getting overwhelmed with all the choices and reading something else, but I am making the decision now that that one I will read soonish
meara - Oct 19, 2023 6:11:52 pm PDT #27763 of 28067
This will make someone a good doctoral thesis, right? How long do you have to wait for it to be properly academic, I wonde
Absolutely. Either comparing the various books or comparing to an authors other books or comparing to previous plague books like the Decameron…