I like the Weather Warden books well enough, but they are kind of like store-bought cookies to me. The pacing is always flat-out, there's very little downtime, and wassname, the lead, always gets more powerful. I want something to get resolved already, and it's not happening.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'Get It Done'
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."
Consuela - Feb 28, 2009 6:08:08 pm PST #8485 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
P.M. Marc - Feb 28, 2009 6:10:37 pm PST #8486 of 28431
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Caine in one of her other books violated the rule of "IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY YOU NIMROD!!!" (For something that was pretty obvious. Not niche.)
Therefore, I have stopped reading her stuff.
P.M. Marc - Feb 28, 2009 6:10:38 pm PST #8487 of 28431
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2009 6:16:32 pm PST #8488 of 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Please to explain, miss PMM?
Fay - Feb 28, 2009 6:33:11 pm PST #8489 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
What ita said.
meara - Mar 01, 2009 12:14:49 am PST #8490 of 28431
So funny--I just re-read the first three Weather Warden books (which I own--haven't read the rest of them, I got a bit irked at the third book and the increased drama/power/etc)...
...and then went to the library where they'd just got a shipment of new books, and picked up Undone, the spinoff mentioned above (which was interesting, I may try to find the next one of that) and Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (I read the first Kitty book, enjoyed, HATED the second, didnt' buy it, read the third one in the store, liked it better, skipped the fourth...this one was...meh. Wouldn't have paid for it.)
...I've gotten so terribly picky about my trashy scifi. Good lord.
P.M. Marc - Mar 01, 2009 6:35:37 am PST #8491 of 28431
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Please to explain, miss PMM?
She got some female reproductive crap and associated accessories throw-the-book-across-the-room wrong. I was highly irked.
It's one thing to have a "that's not how it WORKS" fit regarding something somewhat obscure. That I can (for the most part) get over. But for me, this was a deal breaker. I was also extra-cranky because the first book of the two was so, so good. And then the second one was so, so bad, which (because the first book had kind of a cliffhanger) ruined the first book for me.
Tom Scola - Mar 02, 2009 4:07:40 am PST #8492 of 28431
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year.
''The Pale King,'' excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming out Monday, is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.
Wallace's longtime publisher, Little, Brown and Company, will release the novel. Little, Brown said in a statement Sunday that the novel runs ''several hundred thousand words and will include notes, outlines, and other material.''
Fred Pete - Mar 02, 2009 6:22:51 am PST #8493 of 28431
Ann, that's a ferret.
Coming in late to say, Yay, Knut!
Strix - Mar 03, 2009 9:27:15 am PST #8494 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hey, I can say I beta'd one of Knut's books way back when!
FAME WHORE
Anyway, hi y'all, have missed you.
Karen Chance: read the first novel, was bored.
Rachel Caine: read the Weather series, liked it well enough, but not wonderfully. Like her Morganville Vampires series better, although it's not supergreat either, but it's entertaining.
Read the first 2 "Kitty" books -- thought they were ok. Haven't bothered with the rest.
Anyone read the latest Anne Bishop novel? My sister grabbed it for me when I was in bed recovering, and I thought it was quite a decent read. She's one of those authors who is best in her primary world -- the Blood series I quite like, but her other novels, to me, are pretty boring. Like Jacqueline Carey -- I like her Terre d'Ange series, but the Godslayer books were just terrible to me. I didn't even read the second one, Godslayer was so damned boring.