Wash ,'War Stories'
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."
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.
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.
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.
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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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!
"You are quite beautiful, Princess Bronwyn," Spikengard sang...
Jaysus.
Somebody needs to confiscate his thesaurus. Also his computer or any writing implement in reach.
I never read the Blue Sword until today, I am sorry to say. Now If only it could erase some fo the bad fantasy I've read...