Gunn ,'Power Play'
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."
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me.
It's taken me longer than I anticipated. All the papal politics both bore and confuse me.
I have Foucault's Pendulum ready to start next, but I'm afraid. It seems like it might be a wee bit more exciting, though.
I found Foucault's Pendulum to be rougher going than Name of the Rose, although I liked it immensely. I'm a medieval fangirl, particularly the high weirdness that was the Church, so I was comfortable in the Rose world, but modern Italian politics and Italians were terra incognita to me. I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.
I read Eliot's The Wasteland at the same time I read Foucault's Pendulum, and pot would've helped with both.
One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.
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I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.
(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)
Hey, did you know LMB is coming out with a new book in a new series this fall? [link] (Thank to erinaceous for the heads up.)
I'm afraid I've been incredibly eeeeh about all her non-SF books. Here's hoping this isn't another fantasy.
And Jacqueline Carey's newest book (about Imriel) hits bookstores 6/12!
I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.
But...wouldn't that be due to the narrator? I didn't know there were accusations of plagiarism.