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Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
BTW, I just read bad news about Princess Rooney. She's been diagnosed with EPM.
Poor thing. Wow. She's 28?
Time flies.
I know!
I have always suspected she compares every man to her true love, Francis Crawford of Lymond, and finds him wanting.
Oh, so true, Ginger. And yet if you don't read Lymond at that age (pre-17, I suspect), you don't get the full impact. Or, well, you shouldn't I think. Like the golden age of SF is 13, the golden age of the Lymond Chronicles is 15.
I know Nutty read the first one and bounced hard off the character, for reasons which struck me as entirely fair--but I'm glad I didn't wait until I had a mature and critical-analytical mind to read them.
My favorite thing about Nora Roberts is her ability to write believable male characters. So many romance authors have a hard time coming up with convincing heroes, whereas she's able to produce guys similar to ones I know in close guy relationships as well as romantic ones.
At her constant urging, I did read A Game of Kings and I have the rest of the Lymond Chronicles. I enjoyed it, but I realized it needed the kind of concentration, attention span and uninterrupted reading time I had at 15. I'm now saving them until I retire and can spend uninterrupted days with them. I think the golden age of LotR is also 15-20.
One last piece of Breaking Dawn snark. Spoilery if that matters to you.
I'm now saving them until I retire
Wow. That's ... long-term planning, Ginger.
Wow. That's ... long-term planning, Ginger.
In this, Ginger is my hero.