And Jacqueline Carey's newest book (about Imriel) hits bookstores 6/12!
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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."
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 8:04:24 am PDT #648 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 8:09:11 am PDT #649 of 28061
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 28061
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 8:12:31 am PDT #651 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Mr. Broom - Jun 10, 2006 8:17:14 am PDT #652 of 28061
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
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.
Emily - Jun 10, 2006 8:20:02 am PDT #653 of 28061
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I finished Quicksilver, but the next one's been sitting on my bookshelf for about a year now. I just don't have the time or inclination. Loved Cryptonomicon, with one small bit of eye-rolling at the bit about postmodern academia. Whatever, dude.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 8:21:31 am PDT #654 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What bit was that?
Emily - Jun 10, 2006 8:40:45 am PDT #655 of 28061
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, the thing about the poster of a WWII soldier with photoshopped makeup, only it turned out the artist hadn't gotten permission from the subject of the photo. Also the bit about people who are too impressed with their own smartness and use "information superhighway" stupidly. Really, almost everything about the ex-girlfriend and her colleagues.
-t - Jun 10, 2006 9:16:22 am PDT #656 of 28061
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Here's hoping this isn't another fantasy.
I think it is, though it's not in the same world as Curse of Chalion, etc. Based on the teaser and sample chapter at the end of Hallowed Hunt.
aurelia - Jun 10, 2006 11:07:48 am PDT #657 of 28061
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm about 90 pages into Foucault's Pendulum. Most of my reading time is on the train or right before bed, but I'm having trouble with this one if there are any distractions or if I'm tired.