I fear I found Lot 49 too dated to finish when I finally picked it up last year.
I think I should have read it in the 80s. Or waited another decade.
Kavalier and Clay is a very enjoyable read.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
P.M. Marc - Jun 27, 2006 8:27:07 pm PDT #814 of 28067
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Volans - Jun 27, 2006 9:48:32 pm PDT #815 of 28067
move out and draw fire
I actually didn't enjoy Kavalier and Clay, which I know puts me in the minority here. I never even finished it.
But then, I love the two Eco books you just read, P-C, so YbooktasteMV.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 27, 2006 9:56:10 pm PDT #816 of 28067
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The spoiler, I kid you not, was in the headlines of my local 5:30 news! I don't really care at all, but I guess we must be a really boring news town.
billytea - Jun 27, 2006 9:56:53 pm PDT #817 of 28067
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I actually didn't enjoy Kavalier and Clay, which I know puts me in the minority here. I never even finished it.
Yeah, it didn't do that much for me either. And I greatly enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum.
And right now I'm reading a D&D book on the demons of the Abyss, and a Doctor Who novel. So feel free to ignore my literary pretensions.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2006 4:20:53 am PDT #818 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm reading The Algebraist, and so far enjoying it muchly. (I'm not very far in, but I did remember it had been discussed in here briefly before when one of the characters used the word "kerfuffle.")
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2006 4:30:17 am PDT #819 of 28067
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Algebraist I found slow as fuck. Still am, really. I like it, but it's not like Anansi Boys where I not only couldn't wait to get back to the book, but have fond memories of sitting in my car reading it on my lunch hour.
I will finish it, really.
JohnSweden - Jun 28, 2006 4:30:58 am PDT #820 of 28067
I can't even.
I'm reading The Algebraist, and so far enjoying it muchly.
Yay, Banksian lurve! (Which, you know, usually involves glanding yourself to get nasty with some extremely improbable species, but still.)
Jars - Jun 28, 2006 4:41:02 am PDT #821 of 28067
I just finished The Algebraist a few weeks ago, and I started it last summer. I enjoyed it, but just could not get into it until the last 150 pages or so.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2006 4:49:00 am PDT #822 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Fortunately, I've been getting home so late recently (and waking up early b/c of summer hours) that I can only manage about 20 pages or so before I fall asleep, so a slow read is just about perfect. I think a page-turner might kill me.
DavidS - Jun 28, 2006 5:18:12 am PDT #823 of 28067
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I like it, but it's not like Anansi Boys where I not only couldn't wait to get back to the book, but have fond memories of sitting in my car reading it on my lunch hour.
Brings up a good question:
What was your most pleasurable reading experience?
For me it would either be slounging around my bedroom in my early teens with a just-found used copy of Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber or temping at the Harvard Business School and reading all of One Hundred Years of Solitude at my desk and getting paid for it. (It was very very slow that month and they didn't mind.)