yes, that's it! thanks!
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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 - Dec 18, 2008 12:46:50 pm PST #8190 of 28431
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Laga - Dec 18, 2008 1:40:42 pm PST #8191 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
My favorite Connie Willis is Bellwether
love love love this. I almost recommended it earlier but I didn't know the author's name and I was feeling lazy wrt google. To a small degree the book changed the way I think about the universe.
Consuela - Dec 18, 2008 4:45:27 pm PST #8192 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Flea beat me to Kate Moss; she was marvelous.
I can also recommend PF Chisholm's Elizabethan-era mysteries. Those are quite fun, and rather more substantive, historically, than most historical mysteries. Chisholm is actually Patricia Finney, and she's quite a historian.
DavidS - Dec 19, 2008 8:06:46 am PST #8193 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The porous line between "literary" fiction that plays with SF and the (much hated descriptor) "transcends the genre" science fiction writers.
Don't know how they missed Ballard on that list, though.
lisah - Dec 19, 2008 8:46:55 am PST #8194 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate
Also, it's terrible. (YMMV of course. I love Willis generally, but that book....ugh...)
Oh, shoot, I was going to ask if it was better written than Doomsday Book because the ideas sounds fascinating but I just loathed Doomsday Book . I can't even remember why exactly now. I wanted it to be so much better because the plot (at least in the beginning) was so intriguing to me. I do remember seriously wanting to throw it across the room by the end.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2008 8:58:48 am PST #8195 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And I adore Doomsday Book!
Passages just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaged for me. By the time I got to the last page I was still waiting for the book to start.
Vortex - Dec 19, 2008 4:55:35 pm PST #8196 of 28431
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
We're in the Houston airport. our flight's been delayed for two hours. Mysteriously, it's been delayed to the same time as the later flight. Hmmmmmm.
Shir - Dec 20, 2008 12:24:01 am PST #8197 of 28431
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
::Waiting for Nilly to see the Willis talk::
Barb - Dec 20, 2008 7:18:43 am PST #8198 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Freakin' New Yorker's gone to town on YA literature. Their Book Bench Reads is full of some of the most asinine commentary I've seen in a long time with respect to young adult books.
I tend to think of young-adult fiction as sort of facile—a straightforward style, uncomplicated themes and morals—but this had a complexity, an ambiguity, that surprised me
It fit my expectations in terms of length and enjoyableness, though: I assume that anything branded “young adult” needs to have a plotline that captures a teen’s attention, and also needs to be not too long or challenging.
That was just within the first few paragraphs.
I tried to register to post, but the site hates me, so I had to rant in my blog. Bah.
sj - Dec 20, 2008 7:34:24 am PST #8199 of 28431
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
What an aggravating article, Barb. Heaven forbid a book be challenging and complex. We couldn't let our kids read anything like that. t rolls eyes