OTOH, that means I don't have to wait for any of them to be published! Whoot!
Well, but there's more coming.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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."
Dana - Jun 21, 2007 5:25:01 am PDT #2928 of 28195
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Toddson - Jun 21, 2007 5:34:25 am PDT #2929 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I just finished Bujold's "The Sharing Knife" - it's not Vorkosigan, but it's darn good. I waited for it to come out in paperback, but it was worth it.
Becky - Jun 21, 2007 5:54:22 am PDT #2930 of 28195
Bujold and her Vorkosigan books are next for me. I just started with the Discworld series. I had started reading one a long time ago, but my younger self didn't get the humor, nor did I like the extra u's in everything. (I had a UK version.)
I'm a little behind the times, but boy am I enjoying catching up!
Connie Neil - Jun 21, 2007 6:01:43 am PDT #2931 of 28195
brillig
I'm behind in the Discworld. The last one I read, Vimes' kid was being born.
Steph L. - Jun 21, 2007 6:02:02 am PDT #2932 of 28195
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bujold and her Vorkosigan books are next for me.
Follow the Buffistas' advice and start with the backstory books (Shards of Honor and Barrayar), because they really do add something to the Miles-centric books.
Becky - Jun 21, 2007 6:18:42 am PDT #2933 of 28195
Follow the Buffistas' advice and start with the backstory books (Shards of Honor and Barrayar), because they really do add something to the Miles-centric books.
I have those marked down to read thanks in part to your enthusiasm and the advice that you were given when they were pimped to you.
I'm reading Discworld out of order, sort of. I'm reading the Witch series now, finished Equal Rites, in the middle of Wyrd Sisters.
Volans - Jun 21, 2007 1:39:55 pm PDT #2934 of 28195
move out and draw fire
Toddson is me w/r/t Temeraire. And I had this uncomfortable feeling it was written to be a movie...which I will go see anyway.
I just finished Night Watch at least the part that the movie was based on. The plot/story of the movie was hard to follow, but the book was not. I like it; it's got a very Russian sensibility, naturally, that is fun to read in modern fantasy as opposed to Communist-era fantasy like Margarita It's an essay in the making.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 9:03:38 pm PDT #2935 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Connie Neil - Jun 22, 2007 5:09:15 am PDT #2936 of 28195
brillig
Damn you, Polter, that made *me* cringe just reading it.
Steph L. - Jun 22, 2007 6:44:29 am PDT #2937 of 28195
I look more rad than Lutheranism
::snerk:: Come on -- a book with an unsullied spine is a book that has been horribly neglected!
ION, a few months ago, Jilli mentioned The Anubis Gates, and it sounded intriguing, so I put it on hold at the library. I finally started it last night -- OMG SO GOOD!
Although I'm apparently as fuzzy on what "steampunk" is as I am about what "cyberpunk" is. (I know, several of you have explained cyberpunk to me, but I still don't exactly understand it, based on the examples I've been given. Like, Hec said that the 9/11 hijackers using box-cutters was very cyberpunk, and I don't get it. Shouldn't technology have been involved? Isn't that where the "cyber" comes from?)
I even read the Wikipedia pages on steampunk and cyberpunk last night, and I have concluded that I am completely ignorant and will never be able to understand what, exactly, they are.
It's like those "Magic Eye" pictures, where it looks like a patterned jumble, and ALLEGEDLY a 3-D picture emerges from the jumble. I have never been able to see the 3-D picture. Not even once. I suspect they're a big scam that the entire world is in on, to make me feel deficient.
Well, my inability to understand what cyberpunk (and now steampunk) is like that, too. Everyone *else* seems to understand it, but my brain won't comprehend it.
Still The Anubis Gates is really damn good so far.