For the first time ever, we have two coffee table books on our coffee table. It's weird.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna start any sword fights. I'm over that phase.
Mal ,'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."
Volans - Sep 24, 2007 6:38:13 am PDT #3937 of 28222
move out and draw fire
Laga - Sep 24, 2007 5:03:19 pm PDT #3938 of 28222
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I could never bring myself to throw out any of my diaries. There is much cringeworthiness but they're also part of me.
Consuela - Sep 24, 2007 8:19:46 pm PDT #3939 of 28222
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am bothered, though, by the curious ingratitude of authors who exploit a common fund of imagery while pretending to have nothing to do with the fellow-authors who created it and left it open to all who want to use it. A little return generosity would hardly come amiss.
How much do I love Ursula LeGuin? So very much.
Toddson - Sep 25, 2007 4:00:33 am PDT #3940 of 28222
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I am de-booking myself. sigh. I'm going to miss some of them, but a lot of them are books I'll never read again and they're just occupying space. I hauled three shopping bags full to the library for their book sale ... when I wandered by (you thought I was going to miss a book sale? silly!) I found I kept reaching for books and then thinking "no, I brought that one".
meara - Sep 25, 2007 5:11:34 am PDT #3941 of 28222
Ooh, what library, Toddson? Where? Are there limits on donations? I need a place to take a lot of books!
Volans - Sep 25, 2007 5:33:31 am PDT #3942 of 28222
move out and draw fire
Why do I suspect that LeGuin's review is better written and nicer to read than the book she's reviewing? I do love the phrase "openly commits genre."
Kate P. - Sep 25, 2007 5:59:42 am PDT #3943 of 28222
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
That's a great review; Le Guin is a class act. I'm sort of interested to read the book, but I was so disappointed in The Powerbook that I've been too afraid to read anything Winterson has done since. She was one of my favorite, and most formative, authors for a long time, though, so perhaps I owe her another chance.
Toddson - Sep 25, 2007 6:00:13 am PDT #3944 of 28222
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
meara, DC public library. I think the Cleveland Park branch is having their sale this coming weekend. But I think most of the branches will accept bags of books - you might call and inquire. I took mine to the main library (MLK at 9th and G), where they have their Books Plus mini-store. The guy smiled and said "thank you" when I handed over a shopping bag full of paperbacks.
Ginger - Sep 25, 2007 6:47:31 am PDT #3945 of 28222
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
When mainstream writers, particularly those who disdain science fiction, write books on sf subjects, it almost never goes well from my point of view. What they think is a daring concept of the future is usually an overused idea that has been treated often and better by sf writers.
'SF's no good,' they bellow till we're deaf.
'But this looks good.' - 'Well then, it's not SF.'
- Robert Conquest
Jars - Sep 25, 2007 8:26:35 am PDT #3946 of 28222
What they think is a daring concept of the future is usually an overused idea that has been treated often and better by sf writers.
I had this when I read Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go earlier in the year. I didn't realise there was meant to be a twist.