Hmph.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Jesse - Jan 31, 2008 5:57:15 pm PST #4983 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
meara - Jan 31, 2008 7:22:54 pm PST #4984 of 28343
But Jesse, if you come to Seattle, I'll take you to meet some Urban Cowboys...two-stepping. It's mad fun. At the leather bar.
Um, OK, so they're all gay. Whatever!!
Toddson - Feb 01, 2008 4:13:29 am PST #4985 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
T-shirt I saw once - a rather dejected looking cowboy (hat, chaps) and the words "I've been a bad cowboy. Send me to your room".
lisah - Feb 01, 2008 5:55:39 am PST #4986 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
Jesse - Feb 01, 2008 6:11:09 am PST #4987 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kind of??
lisah - Feb 01, 2008 6:21:37 am PST #4988 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
Kind of??
ummmm...well...we were playing mostly terrible country crossover hits from the 80s but, dang, some were pretty fun!
Hayden - Feb 01, 2008 6:48:31 am PST #4989 of 28343
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Man, Lisa! That's some kind of hairdo you're sporting there.
lisah - Feb 01, 2008 9:44:27 am PST #4990 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
That's some kind of hairdo you're sporting there.
It's called the Cheap Wig + Hairspray!
Susan W. - Feb 01, 2008 11:08:53 am PST #4991 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just set aside a romance by a debut author that's been getting raves all over the internets. It wasn't bad--the writing quality alone was better than 90% of what's out there. It's just that after a few chapters I wasn't really engrossed, so I went skimming ahead: aborted sex scene early on, check, lots of action because it's a spy story, check, consummation scene, check, one last big threat before they can live happily ever after, check.
When did I become so impossible to please? At the rate I'm going, I'll have nothing left but re-reading classics and waiting for new books from the five or ten living authors who can either surprise me or use formula in a way that feels delightfully classic instead of predictable and yawn-inducing. And I feel bad because I don't think I'm anything close to a perfect storyteller myself, and I don't want to be hard on other authors. I just can't seem to help it. I've become far too easily bored.
ETA I know I've grumped about stuff like this before, but it seems to be getting worse. This was a good book. A few years ago I would've loved it. It didn't have any of the historical errors or awkward writing that normally mark wallbangers for me. I just couldn't be bothered to care about the outcome of the story.
Toddson - Feb 01, 2008 11:32:13 am PST #4992 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Susan, have you tried the Pink Carnation series? I started with the second because I found it at a second-hand bookstore, but I've enjoyed it immensely.