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You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Early ,'Objects In Space'

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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."

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Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:51:02 am PDT #641 of 28370

move out and draw fire

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.

Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:53:02 am PDT #642 of 28370

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.

Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:56:09 am PDT #643 of 28370

move out and draw fire

t groan

Hil R. - Jun 10, 2006 7:57:45 am PDT #644 of 28370

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.

Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:59:30 am PDT #645 of 28370

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)

Jesse - Jun 10, 2006 8:02:05 am PDT #646 of 28370

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.)

Betsy HP - Jun 10, 2006 8:04:19 am PDT #647 of 28370

If I only had a brain...

I'm afraid I've been incredibly eeeeh about all her non-SF books. Here's hoping this isn't another fantasy.

Strix - Jun 10, 2006 8:04:24 am PDT #648 of 28370

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

And Jacqueline Carey's newest book (about Imriel) hits bookstores 6/12!

Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 8:09:11 am PDT #649 of 28370

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.

Strix - Jun 10, 2006 8:09:54 am PDT #650 of 28370

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I've never heard that either! Interesting.

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