I really think Moore was at least 10-15 years ahead of her time in her style.
At least. And in the '40s, she and Henry Kuttner (her husband) had what may have been the truest partnership in all of literature.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Fred Pete - Jun 19, 2006 7:42:57 am PDT #686 of 28061
Ann, that's a ferret.
Kathy A - Jun 19, 2006 8:27:25 am PDT #687 of 28061
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was really lucky about ten years ago when I was in the midst of a "hit every Friends of the Local Library Book Sale" phase (six weekends in a row roaming Lake County, looking for collectible books really cheap). I didn't get to the Lake Zurich library until around 3:00 on Saturday afternoon, and sure enough, the selection was definitely picked over by then. But, while scanning the general fiction table, I quite literally squealed in excitement when I saw the long-out-of-print Best of CL Moore collection I'd been searching for since that college lit class. One dollar later, I was a very happy bookaholic!
Hayden - Jun 19, 2006 5:46:39 pm PDT #688 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Cindy, I would love to hear your reaction to Marilynne Robinson's essay on liberal Christianity in this month's Harper's.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 20, 2006 3:33:26 am PDT #689 of 28061
What is even happening?
Is it online, Corwood? I went to harpers.org and didn't find it, but I've only had a cup of coffee. Google is being similarly stingey with the love.
Hayden - Jun 20, 2006 6:09:54 am PDT #690 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
It doesn't look like it's online yet. Harpers.org still has last month's cover up on the current issue page (way to keep current, guys!), and I can't seem to find it elsewhere, either. Definitely worth a read, although this issue isn't one of the standouts elsewhere.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 20, 2006 6:29:36 am PDT #691 of 28061
What is even happening?
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it. It sounds like it could be similar to other Robinson pieces I can find on line. I haven't looked at them in-depth, but I suspect I'm going to be nodding in agreement at least as often as I'm thinking, "But no, wait..." Theologically speaking, I'm actually pretty conservative, but how I think that should play out leaves me somewhat of an orphan in all sorts of arenas.
Hayden - Jun 20, 2006 7:22:56 am PDT #692 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey, that's why I want to hear your perspective.
Hayden - Jun 20, 2006 10:43:10 am PDT #693 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
meara - Jun 21, 2006 1:59:05 pm PDT #694 of 28061
So anyone reading/read the latest Kushiel book? I'm about 3/4 done now...
justkim - Jun 21, 2006 4:12:41 pm PDT #695 of 28061
Another social casualty...
I finished Kushiel's Scion over the weekend. I liked it. It did what I needed and expected to do, which was provide with an excuse to revisit a favorite place. It doesn't compare to my deep love for the first series (especially Kushiel's Dart ), but I was surprised by how easily I was able to accept this as Imriel's story. I appreciated that I didn't anticipate parts of the plot.
Carey has some stylistic touches (continuous repetition of choice phrases) that tend to drive me nuts. I thought she had grown past them throughout the first trilogy, but I noticed them here and it occasionally took me out of the story. Maybe I had just gotten used to the style over the course of the first three books and stopped letting it bug me.
I missed Phedre and Joscelin though.