I wouldn't put it past him. He wrote one called "The Magic Fart".
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
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."
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.
meara - May 18, 2008 9:34:50 pm PDT #5827 of 28358
Hrm. Perhaps you should delete or spoilerfont or something the above message, and just say "I want to discuss the Blahlblahbah series, but how to deal with the Big Honkin Spoiler in Book 14? People who've read the series, what do you think?" and then it could be discussed. As is, if anyone hasn't read the book, well...your post above kinda kills it, as soon as the series in question is revealed. :)