So I've got a e-copy of The Moonstone, and this is a good book. Which I guess is why people still keep reading it.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 10, 2009 6:32:11 pm PDT #8571 of 28431
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Fay - Mar 10, 2009 7:04:05 pm PDT #8572 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
It is a good book. Although my heart belongs to The Woman In White, if we're talking Wilkie Collins. I freaking ADORE that one. Well, more specifically I adore the awesome female protagonist (not the romantic girl, but her fabulous friend), and the villainous fella who appreciates her. FABULOUS BOOK.
Fred Pete - Mar 11, 2009 5:04:04 am PDT #8573 of 28431
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm thinking of getting a Kindle before our next vacation so I can download my reading and not carry half a dozen books on the plane.
Willkie Collins will be on that reading list. But, as much as I love both Moonstone and Woman in White, I'll probably go with something I haven't read before.
Connie Neil - Mar 11, 2009 6:12:46 am PDT #8574 of 28431
brillig
I'll add Woman in White to my list of books to load on my Palm. I'm surprised at how un-Victorian the language is in Moonstone. Some Victorian-era books are pretty stuffy, but this has a sense of humor--though I'm wondering how much of what I perceive as clever is intentional. Such as the butler's reliance on Robinson Crusoe as a source of wisdom.
Ginger - Mar 11, 2009 6:26:00 am PDT #8575 of 28431
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Such as the butler's reliance on Robinson Crusoe as a source of wisdom.
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. Even Defoe was mocking Crusoe a lot of the time.
Tom Scola - Mar 13, 2009 5:59:51 am PDT #8576 of 28431
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Naked Woman as Described in a Sci-Fi Novel
A very WTF excerpt from a sci-fi fantasy novel entitled “Silk and Steel.”
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Laga - Mar 13, 2009 11:11:48 am PDT #8578 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
A very WTF excerpt from a sci-fi fantasy novel entitled “Silk and Steel.”
shouldn't it be: "Her pubes were a field of wheat after the harvest."?
and might I add, ouch!
Typo Boy - Mar 13, 2009 11:41:18 am PDT #8579 of 28431
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2009 11:51:39 am PDT #8580 of 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"You are quite beautiful, Princess Bronwyn," Spikengard sang...
Jaysus.