I adore Octavia Butler, FWIW. She's right up there with my all time favourites. I was so disappointed by this book.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
§ ita § - Mar 06, 2009 7:38:27 pm PST #8550 of 28769
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gris - Mar 07, 2009 1:13:00 pm PST #8551 of 28769
Hey. New board.
I kind of liked it. I don't really remember it that well, though, so it didn't leave much of an impression I guess.
I feel like my comments on it are somewhere in this thread, actually.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2009 1:31:29 pm PST #8552 of 28769
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You made me go back and look, and it seems I have bitched about it before. I do hope Nicole checked out other OEB, because I think it's easily the weakest of her work.
Kat - Mar 07, 2009 2:00:13 pm PST #8553 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have been pushing Kindred lately, which I love. And I have kids who are into vampires, so I thought I might try to sell Fledgling too.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2009 2:07:41 pm PST #8554 of 28769
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother used to want me to stop reading SF&F, and tossed Kindred to me in that cause. She should have checked the rest of Butler's oeuvre beforehand...
My sister who only consumes SF&F because of me liked Kindred on its own terms. I thought it was a wonderful book. Thought-provoking and powerful.
Pix - Mar 07, 2009 3:28:52 pm PST #8555 of 28769
The status is NOT quo.
Oh yes, I adore Kindred. One of my favorite books, actually, and I agree much better than Fledgling.
flea - Mar 10, 2009 8:54:30 am PDT #8556 of 28769
information libertarian
I am doing a project called Understanding The American South. Recommend books to me that speak to this topic - history, culture, cooking, whatever. (Nonfiction preferred, though - I am not much of a fiction reader).
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 8:59:31 am PDT #8557 of 28769
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
WJ Cash - The Mind of the South
VO Key - Southern Politics in State and Nation
C Vann Woodward - The Origins of the New South
C Vann Woodward - The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:02:01 am PDT #8558 of 28769
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lawrence Goodwyn - The Populist Moment
C Vann Woodward - Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel
Robert Wiebe - The Search for Order 1877 - 1920
Gavin Wright - Old South, New South
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:04:16 am PDT #8559 of 28769
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Carter Woodson - The Mis-Education of the Negro
Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom
Stanley Elkins - Slavery
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland (esp for the sections about George Wallace)