Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 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.
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.
What bit was that?
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.
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.
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.
I loved Name of the Rose when I read it, and I just recently read Baudolino, which was a lot of fun. Haven't gotten around to Foucault's Pendulum.