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Consuela - Aug 07, 2008 8:17:54 pm PDT #6905 of 28385
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

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.

Kathy A - Aug 07, 2008 9:14:27 pm PDT #6906 of 28385
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

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.

Ginger - Aug 08, 2008 3:21:59 am PDT #6907 of 28385
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

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.

Kat - Aug 08, 2008 4:56:29 am PDT #6908 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

One last piece of Breaking Dawn snark. Spoilery if that matters to you.

Consuela - Aug 08, 2008 6:12:25 pm PDT #6909 of 28385
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm now saving them until I retire

Wow. That's ... long-term planning, Ginger.

Gadget_Girl - Aug 08, 2008 7:26:16 pm PDT #6910 of 28385
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

Wow. That's ... long-term planning, Ginger.

In this, Ginger is my hero.

Sheryl - Aug 10, 2008 12:11:54 pm PDT #6911 of 28385
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Just a quick post to say that "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" won the Hugo for Best Novel.

Strix - Aug 10, 2008 4:59:07 pm PDT #6912 of 28385
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I am about 3/4 through with Halfway in the GraVe by Jeaniene Frost. New author to me, but I like it well enough to have already downloaded the sequel for reading tomorrow night.

Her main male character, Bones, is engaging, but is...well, kinda Spike with a conscience. I mean, really.

It gets off to a shaky start, but the prose and characterization firms up and it starts to move nicely. We shall see. I'm not in love, but it's certainly entertaining.

le nubian - Aug 10, 2008 6:34:20 pm PDT #6913 of 28385
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I'm reading cleolinda's recap of "Twilight" and I'm dying. Man, that's some funny shit.

Now I really have no interest in reading the book.

Steph L. - Aug 10, 2008 6:40:11 pm PDT #6914 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

le nubian, I have to admit that I read Cleolinda's recap of the most recently released Twilight book, and despite how back the book sounds from her recap, I put the first one on hold at the library.

I feel dirty.

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