Didn't Anthony write some uber-squicky story about women being used as a source of milk?
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'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."
Frankenbuddha - May 16, 2008 3:51:39 am PDT #5817 of 28358
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Deena - May 16, 2008 5:43:24 am PDT #5818 of 28358
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Typo Boy - May 16, 2008 6:43:05 am PDT #5819 of 28358
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.
Didn't Anthony write some uber-squicky story about women being used as a source of milk?
Yeah - as propaganda for vegetarianism.
Laga - May 16, 2008 9:44:00 am PDT #5820 of 28358
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I am afeared of magical smegma. I had to stop reading the review. those Bio of a Space Tyrant books were porny enough already.
P.M. Marc - May 16, 2008 10:53:56 am PDT #5821 of 28358
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Didn't Anthony write some uber-squicky story about women being used as a source of milk?
Yes.
I AM STILL SQUICKED NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY AFTER READING IT.
§ ita § - May 18, 2008 4:10:38 am PDT #5822 of 28358
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph, here: Steph L. "Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear." Jan 14, 2008 10:15:44 am PST what is the thing you didn't see coming? Just blew the night reading the book.
I...I don't know why it was so long. I didn't feel we had enough clues, enough underlying structure to know how things ought to go, so I felt at least as out to sea as the protagonist, with the downside of not being able to use magic and wear fancy dresses, if that makes sense.
I mean, I could basically tell she was being too impetuous and young about the decisions that had to be made, but as someone less headstrong I didn't feel I had that much more information to go on anyway. So I felt like I was just waiting for the right answer to be delivered to me, instead of participating or working it out as I went along.
Steph L. - May 18, 2008 6:41:04 am PDT #5823 of 28358
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph, here: Steph L. "Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear." Jan 14, 2008 10:15:44 am PST what is the thing you didn't see coming?
I really didn't expect Felicity to be in love with Pippa. Or, to be totally accurate, I didn't expect that Felicity was a lesbian, period, regardless of who she was in love with.
Consuela - May 18, 2008 10:17:46 am PDT #5824 of 28358
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother yesterday. Which is a fast read, and a fun one. Although, in the end, it felt more like a political screed than a story. YBMV.
§ ita § - May 18, 2008 10:50:29 am PDT #5825 of 28358
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Interesting. I was wondering if it was Gemma sleeping with Kartik, even if it was in their dreams.
For some reason I had a hard time keeping track of Felicity's homosexuality--I mean, she'd been in love with Pippa, but that didn't mean she was gay--just that she'd been in love with and having sexing with another woman. Not sure why. I guess I'd been convinced by the scant bits of attention she'd thrown to men. Fee was bi to me. But I got it by the end.
It's the kind of book I need better "world rules" for, when all is said and done with.
§ ita § - May 18, 2008 9:30:04 pm PDT #5826 of 28358
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mnnf. I want to try and start a discussion that features a character death in a series of novels. Sort of a Women in Refrigerators thing. Character died in 2005, 14 of 16 books in. I can't work out how to accomodate for spoileriness.