I may be influenced by the fact that I read Jude the Obscure and The Return of the Native in one day for a test.
That would kill a lesser person.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'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."
Hayden - Jun 07, 2006 9:03:00 am PDT #595 of 28095
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Kathy A - Jun 07, 2006 9:09:00 am PDT #596 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think I've posted before about my detestation for Tess, both the book and the character. Actually, my Victorian Lit class had me disliking almost all the fiction writers assigned (except for Lewis Carroll), but liking most of the essayists.
Nora Roberts got a nice blurb from Stephen King in his latest EW column, as the best romance writer around (he said something like "She's written 700 books, of which I'm guessing around 100-200 are any good, but those that I've read, I've liked a lot.")
If anyone hasn't read Ellison's The Glass Teat yet, I highly recommend it--it's an excellent collection of columns he did on TV in the late '60s/early '70s.
Katie M - Jun 07, 2006 9:29:00 am PDT #597 of 28095
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Doesn't she also teach? I seem to remember her being thanked in an acknowledgement page of another author, mentioning that she was a professor at his school.
Yeah, she's a professor at Princeton, or was last I knew.
JohnSweden - Jun 07, 2006 11:10:50 am PDT #598 of 28095
I can't even.
I think Robin Hobb is someone else.
She is, she used the name Megan Lindholm in the past too.
P.M. Marc - Jun 07, 2006 11:21:36 am PDT #599 of 28095
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I read all the Hardy there was by choice and was SAD when I ran out.
You weirdos.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2006 11:41:03 am PDT #600 of 28095
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't believe no one mentioned Russell Hoban, author of both Bread and Jam for Francis, and Riddley Walker. (Among other things for various ages of reader.)
Amy - Jun 07, 2006 11:51:11 am PDT #601 of 28095
Because books.
Wow, Russell Hoban is a great example. Again, I had no idea he wrote anything but children's books (my favorite was always Harvey's hideout), but I don't read a lot of fantasy or sci-fi. Thanks, Jesse!
Jesse - Jun 07, 2006 11:53:30 am PDT #602 of 28095
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Riddley Walker is a fairly amazing book, but even more so when you remember that it's the same Russell Hoban.
Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2006 12:11:53 pm PDT #603 of 28095
Herding cats for fun
I don't think of Oscar Wilde as a children's author, but he had a story in Olive Beaupre Miller's "My Book House: Through the Gate" (aka Volume 4). He contributed "The Selfish Giant," about a mean giant who wouldn't let the children play in his beautiful yard.
DavidS - Jun 07, 2006 12:30:40 pm PDT #604 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Donald Westlake has written mysteries, caper novels, satire, science fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy under his own name. And then there's even more stuff he writes using a pseudonym.
I was gonna mention Westlake!
Uh, Ted Hughes wrote poetry and children's books (very successfully).