Willow ,'Potential'
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."
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
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.
It's like watching Devil With A Blue Dress and wondering when the actual reveal was going to happen. I guess you get around that by casting Jolene Blalock as your racially indeterminate character. What with Al Jolson being unavailable and everything.
ita's funny. Although I think I could possibly come close with that movie made from the Philip Roth book where the elder "passing" prof is played by Anthony Hopkins.
Has anyone read ACACIA, by David Anthony Durham? I'm going to have to return it to the library unread for lack of time to read it. My holds list has been attacking me the last few weeks--books where I wasn't even that near the top of the list kept suddenly bumping into "in transit" status (which means it's too late to freeze them), so I've been getting 6 new books a week instead of a nice manageable two or three. Anyway, is ACACIA worth putting back on the list after I turn it in?
I've seen excellent reviews of Acacia, Susan, FWIW. I have not, however, read it myself.
Speaking of books, Empire of Ivory, the latest Temeraire novel, is out in paper in the US today.
Speaking of books, Empire of Ivory, the latest Temeraire novel, is out in paper in the US today.
t rushes off to amazon.com
Squee! My preorder shipped yesterday!
Speaking of books, Empire of Ivory, the latest Temeraire novel, is out in paper in the US today.
I went to B&N after work today to get it. I'm about halfway through, and am enjoying it immensely.
okay I just finished the first book in the Dark is Rising series. I read it because there was such an uproar about the movie adaptation and I had to see what people were being so passionate about. And I have to say I just don't get it. It was quite a slog.
Is the first book just a dud and the rest are more exciting? I was totally skimming at the end just to finish it.
And I figured maybe it had come out in, like, the mid 80s so none of my generation would have read it as kids but it was published in the 60s? Who are all these people who are fans of the series???
The first book is not actually the book that was adapted for the movie. The second book introduces new characters, though everyone eventually comes together.
And I would say if you don't like the first book, you won't like the rest.