I adore Octavia Butler, FWIW. She's right up there with my all time favourites. I was so disappointed by this book.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gris - Mar 07, 2009 1:13:00 pm PST #8551 of 28431
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 28431
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 28431
"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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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)