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.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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."
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
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.
Jars - Jun 10, 2006 11:08:32 am PDT #658 of 28061
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.
Nicklas - Jun 10, 2006 12:01:41 pm PDT #659 of 28061
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
I'm trying to come up with authors who wrote in many genres, or for both children and adults, all under the same name.
Not sure about if he ever written something marketed as YA, but it'd be really hard to pinpoint Jonathan Lethem to a certain genre.
erikaj - Jun 10, 2006 12:56:40 pm PDT #660 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
wrod.
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2006 7:32:00 pm PDT #661 of 28061
brillig
I've read Rose twice, and I've got a couple of Eco's essays that I really love. He's got a gorgeous snarky sense of humor.