David, I'll put some cards around Marin for you.
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Java cat - Jan 07, 2008 2:42:58 pm PST #4613 of 28342
Not javachik
sj - Jan 08, 2008 4:17:38 am PST #4614 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Can anyone point me to a good online list of the reading order of Terry Pratchett's books?
-t - Jan 08, 2008 6:24:20 am PST #4615 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj - Jan 08, 2008 6:28:02 am PST #4616 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I like published order, myself. [link]
Thanks! That's what I was looking for. I couldn't find a complete updated list.
Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2008 8:31:08 am PST #4617 of 28342
brillig
I think Jingo is my favorite Pratchett, it's got almost perfect Vimes-Vetinari interaction.
I so adore Vimes, in all his righteous Vimesness.
Toddson - Jan 08, 2008 12:25:40 pm PST #4618 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Just fyi, I was over at Smart Bitches Trashy Books and they've discovered that Cassie Edwards lifted entire passages from older books (non-fiction, describing Native American life, customs, etc.) and incorporated them wholesale into her "books" (such gems as Savage Thunder, Savage Wind). One source was an article on ferrets (which has me completely boggled). They're screaming plagairism (in addition to their usual complaints of bad writing). If you want to watch a kerfuffle, without being actually involved, it might be entertaining. It's also been mentioned in fandom wank.
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2008 12:26:48 pm PST #4619 of 28342
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Really? Oh, ouch. I'm guessing it won't get the same kerfuffle that the Janet-Dailey-ripping-off-Nora-Roberts plagarism thing got several years ago, though.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2008 12:28:55 pm PST #4620 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nora Roberts actually commented and supported the Smart Bitches, whereas Jennifer Crusie is handwringing at the "bashing," despite agreeing that Cassie Edwards should, indeed, go down for plagiarism.
Toddson - Jan 08, 2008 12:34:12 pm PST #4621 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It won't be quite as much of a fuss as the Dailey/Roberts thing because she lifted factual passages, with some minimal rephrasing, rather than pretty much an entire book.
And I think Jennifer Crusie's comment was more to the point of they have been bashing Edwards for quite some time for bad writing (it was something along the lines of "did Cassie Edwards run over your dog?").
Still ... ferrets?
Amy - Jan 08, 2008 12:34:46 pm PST #4622 of 28342
Because books.
Go P-C, keeping up with the Bitches!
I have no idea if Edwards truly plagiarized, although the evidence looks pretty damning, but the whole thing is just so sad and distasteful. It's like a junior high schooler who doesn't know she can't quote sources verbatim in her research paper.
She wrote a few books for Kensington under our Zebra imprint, and we used to shamelessly mock her, after the fact (i.e. when the editor who acquired her books was long gone). Desire's Blossom was the one we used to mock most -- the Smart Bitches review of it is here, and it's pricelessly snarky. Her books were everything that made romance mockable.