I've never fallen for Greg Bear, despite multiple attempts, but I've never attempted Queen of Angels. Maybe I should.
It's different, I think, from his other work. Very readable and engaging.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
DavidS - Aug 08, 2007 12:11:11 pm PDT #3647 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
beth b - Aug 08, 2007 1:14:30 pm PDT #3648 of 28200
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Some greg Bear I like - aome I don't . Haven't read Queen of Angels . Looking forward to it now.
Virtual Light is my favorite Gibson. I think Pattern Recognition is next. I'm the oddball that didn't get much out of Neromancer
Cashmere - Aug 08, 2007 4:50:46 pm PDT #3649 of 28200
Now tagless for your comfort.
Spook Country is still listed as "processing" at my library, but I've got it on reserve. I'll have to pick up Blood Music, too.
Consuela - Aug 08, 2007 8:36:49 pm PDT #3650 of 28200
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I loved Pattern Recognition; picked it up after Micole recommended it a while back. He's got the best handle of the online social dynamic of any writer I've seen (in a fictional setting, anyway).
DavidS - Aug 09, 2007 10:56:20 am PDT #3651 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anybody ever read The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton?
sumi - Aug 09, 2007 10:59:11 am PDT #3652 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
I think I did. . . the title at least is familiar to me but it must have been a long, long time ago.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2007 10:59:52 am PDT #3653 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does this jog your memory?
The novel is cast in a favorite traditional form for children's fantasy: Edward and Eleanor Hall, a pair of children in Concord, Mass. (circa 1962), discover a secret attic room in Uncle Freddy's big old house on Walden Street. The room contains a cryptical poem tantamount to a treasure map, and a variety of antique toys that draw them into an eerie and fantastic otherworld that continually impinges on this one through visions, through dreams, and through encounters bizarre and grotesque. There is a haunted harp, a spectral nautilus shell, an evil jack-in-the box, a magic mirror, a missing Prince Krishna of Mandracore . . . and permeating everything, references and reverberations of the Transcendentalists: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Over-Soul. I managed to forget most of the literary references in the 30 or so years since I first read this book, but I have never forgotten the nautilus.
sumi - Aug 09, 2007 11:00:18 am PDT #3654 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
I remember The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron as another favorite.
flea - Aug 09, 2007 11:46:08 am PDT #3655 of 28200
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I didn't read The Diamond in the Window, but I read The Swing in the Summerhouse (the sequel).
I loved L. M. Boston's Green Knowe books, in a similar vein.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2007 12:18:14 pm PDT #3656 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I always did love that premise in children's books: the old attic (or curiosity shop, whatever) with magical doorways and enchanted objects.
Attics were best, though.