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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."
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.
I've never heard that either! Interesting.
I mean, they don't really have a leg to stand on anyway! Eco claims he just stumbled across Adso's manuscript and decided to translate it into Italian.
I've been needing to read Cryptonomicon again for some time now; I read it in three weeks four years ago and really need to do it again. I've read the Baroque Cycle twice through, and while I understand why other people could find it hard to get through (you just have to make it until the second half of Quicksilver and then it starts to ramp up, and The Confusion is a lot more intense and fun after--it's a lot like the Lord of the Rings in that sense), I couldn't put them down.