whatsherface who writes "sci-fi romances" as Jayne Castle drove me crazy in the one book of hers I read - she'd compound words so people drank "cafftea" and so on - words compounded into long portmanteau word/phrases that were awkward. People are lazy - they wouldn't use the long versions.
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
Xander ,'Showtime'
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."
Toddson - Oct 01, 2008 8:22:00 am PDT #7619 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Kathy A - Oct 01, 2008 8:32:49 am PDT #7620 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Jayne Ann Krentz--yeah, that bugged me bigtime in her Castle books.
I prefer Robin D. Owens "Heart" series which features cats and other animals as familiars that can communicate telepathically with their human counterparts. The first one, Heartmate, has a really well-written cat as the main familiar.
hippocampus - Oct 01, 2008 9:58:09 am PDT #7621 of 28404
not your mom's socks.
Teppy - I slurked back in here to post that xkcd link. It's double funny because I paid full price for Anathem.
Sadly, Hayden Carruth just passed away. [link]
Hayden - Oct 01, 2008 10:08:28 am PDT #7622 of 28404
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I thought about mentioning that about Hayden Carruth. We share initials, a name, and an interest in poetry, so friends used to give me books of his when I was younger. The NYT obit mentions that James Dickey thought he would scatter his little gems among some fairly stiff poetry, which is my take, too (and Dickey knows a few things about the emotional suckerpunch). When Carruth was pedestrian, he was pretty dull, but when he was good, he had that rare ability to knock you out of phase with reality with only a couple of words, the poetic satori.
DavidS - Oct 01, 2008 10:56:18 am PDT #7623 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did y'all know there was an official Gormenghast website? Which features Peake's handwritten/drawn pages of the manuscript?
Cool.
DavidS - Oct 01, 2008 11:17:36 am PDT #7624 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Good lord! Peake's illustrations for Bleak House are awesomely gothy.
From the Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Life in Death
Tom Scola - Oct 01, 2008 11:25:47 am PDT #7625 of 28404
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete
"The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said. "That ignorance is restraining."
Barb - Oct 01, 2008 11:35:31 am PDT #7626 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
There's something about Lady Dedlok that has me thinking "No Capes!"
Strega - Oct 01, 2008 3:40:43 pm PDT #7627 of 28404
Did y'all know there was an official Gormenghast website?
Oooooooooh.
Shiny.
sumi - Oct 01, 2008 5:12:38 pm PDT #7628 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
Didn't you guys see those illustrations when you read the book?
(I don't own it - but those were the illustrations in the copy of Gormenghast in my local library.)