Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
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!
I'm behind in the Discworld. The last one I read, Vimes' kid was being born.
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.
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.
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.
Damn you, Polter, that made *me* cringe just reading it.
::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.
Like, Hec said that the 9/11 hijackers using box-cutters was very cyberpunk, and I don't get it.
What? Neither do I, and I thought I mostly understood cyberpunk. Well, probably not, as I think it mostly involves computers and robots and a general punkish attitude. Whereas steampunk is more the same sensibility as cyberpunk, except the computers are made of string and toast.
Whereas steampunk is more the same sensibility as cyberpunk, except the computers are made of string and toast.
I actually *do* understand steampunk better than I do cyberpunk. Chatty!co-worker is trying to explain cyberpunk to me, and he told me that maybe I'm incapable of understanding it because I'm ludditepunk.