Kushner's Privilege of the Sword rocks, by the way. If you liked Swordspoint, you'll like this
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
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."
Connie Neil - Jul 26, 2007 9:58:23 am PDT #3488 of 28197
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Kathy A - Jul 26, 2007 10:04:31 am PDT #3489 of 28197
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oooh, a paranormal romance question!! I'll have to go through my collection, but the vampire romances that I know are popular (but I haven't read) are the Christine Feehan ones (a long series, but I don't know which one came first). There was an older trilogy done by Lori Herter back in the early '90s, but they're long out of print.
My favorite SF/fantasy romance series is the sadly-truncated Matrix of Destiny series by Dara Joy, starting with Knight of a Trillion Stars. Unfortunately, her publisher got in a snit because she wrote another fantasy romance (not the Matrix series, though) for another publisher and they've barred her from writing any more in that series as a result. She's had an ongoing lawsuit that is still in limbo, AFAIK.
I also love the still-ongoing Heart series by Robin D. Owens, starting with HeartMate. It's a fun series about humans who have settled on another planet and evolved magical abilities. A very well-written series with a complex 'verse and backstories for the characters. (I just checked the Amazon entry for her, and found out that book six in this series just came out this month--I know what I'll be buying when I go into work on Saturday!)
erikaj - Jul 26, 2007 10:06:32 am PDT #3490 of 28197
Always Anti-fascist!
Reading Jilli's post makes me want to write a Young Adult anthology called "Love Sucks". But for all I know, there's one already, or I'm feeding into(yuk, yuk) a trend she hates.
Atropa - Jul 26, 2007 10:16:09 am PDT #3491 of 28197
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Reading Jilli's post makes me want to write a Young Adult anthology called "Love Sucks". But for all I know, there's one already,
I'm pretty sure there is.
or I'm feeding into(yuk, yuk) a trend she hates.
Actually, I really like a lot of YA paranormal fiction. Probably because most of it doesn't fall into the "chick-lit" clichés that make me start grinding my teeth.
askye - Jul 26, 2007 10:49:00 am PDT #3492 of 28197
Thrive to spite them
I'm currently reading Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War series, I'm on Engaging the Enemy (book 3). Has anyone read it?
Toddson - Jul 26, 2007 11:20:08 am PDT #3493 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
askye, I've read the first two. They're good, although I preferred her series that began with Sporting Chance and another with Once a Hero ... although the second one kind of faded after the first, um, three books or so.
Gris - Jul 26, 2007 11:54:55 am PDT #3494 of 28197
Hey. New board.
"Random Acts of Paypal" made me cry and cry and cry. After I was already crying about Kat and Lori's wedding. Damnit.
-t - Jul 26, 2007 12:46:50 pm PDT #3495 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Years of Rice and Salt,
Oh, I like that a whole lot. I recommend getting around to it, brenda!
Toddson - Jul 26, 2007 12:53:02 pm PDT #3496 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For paranormal romances, I've read a number. Many of them go into the "oh, this is awful, I don't want to be a (vampire / werewolf / whatever), how do I redeem myself" or they go to the other extreme and are very jokey. Sherrilyn Kenyon is kind of wacky, but I've enjoyed some of her earlier books ... the latest ones, I think she's running the franchise into the ground. But one of the earlier ones ... how do you not like a book that starts off, "Let's tie him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him"?
DawnK - Jul 26, 2007 1:50:45 pm PDT #3497 of 28197
giraffe mode
Jilli, my 16 y.o. daughter got me to read Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer.
They are YA romance/vampire/werewolf books and actually not too bad. I'm not a big lover of romance and it was a bit schmoopy for me and but it hit some pretty good notes about being a 16/17 year old girl in love for the first time (plus teen angst aplenty!) Don't know if it would be your cuppa or not or if you've read them already.
Eta: errant N