If you're willing to deal with a lot of preachiness, try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 7:54:57 am PDT #4250 of 28574
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Typo Boy - Nov 02, 2007 7:59:38 am PDT #4251 of 28574
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
...try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
I think she does that a lot.
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 9:01:32 am PDT #4252 of 28574
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's more unusual for Tepper when one of her books doesn't make someone feel that way, in fact.
erikaj - Nov 02, 2007 9:21:48 am PDT #4253 of 28574
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Thanks for all the great suggestions. I knew the hivemind wouldn't let me down. I love Atwood and Paley and sometimes Lippmann(Although she's a life-stealing heffa and I don't like her series books as well as the stand-alones. Which is not related to the heffa issue.) Off-topic, Corwood: thanks for the pimpage.
amych - Nov 02, 2007 9:22:31 am PDT #4254 of 28574
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
she's a life-stealing heffa
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erikaj - Nov 02, 2007 9:26:46 am PDT #4255 of 28574
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
It's a joke. Because she's a best-selling mystery novelist and I'm a wannabe, and she's married to my Fake Literary Husband. So it's like she has the life I wanted or something. (mock-shaking fist) Bitch.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2007 9:33:26 am PDT #4256 of 28574
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laura Lippman and David Simon are married?!? I had no idea! That's cool.
amych - Nov 02, 2007 9:38:07 am PDT #4257 of 28574
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
So it's like she has the life I wanted or something.
Oh, *phew* -- I thought for a moment that you were saying she'd done your FLH wrong or something! Because I lurve her, and lurve the two being together even more (even if he is totally your FLH).
erikaj - Nov 02, 2007 9:38:42 am PDT #4258 of 28574
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Well, I guess they only recently made it legal, but they've been all BodymoreMurderland4-ever1!!for sometime.
Hayden - Nov 02, 2007 9:46:20 am PDT #4259 of 28574
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
You may notice as you watch The Wire that Bunk is often reading a Lippman novel.