Looking forward to them -- I had read somethings by her, but nothing quite as powerful.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
beth b - Mar 15, 2009 5:49:04 pm PDT #8584 of 28476
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Dana - Mar 15, 2009 5:49:37 pm PDT #8585 of 28476
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I love The Blue Sword, much more than The Hero and the Crown. I admire the latter, but Blue Sword has my heart.
I also love The Outlaws of Sherwood and her retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, Spindle's End.
Beverly - Mar 15, 2009 6:22:17 pm PDT #8586 of 28476
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, I'd forgotten Outlaws--yes, that one's lovely. Spindle's End is a sentimental favorite of mine, too.
Check your profile addy, Dana.
Dana - Mar 15, 2009 6:29:54 pm PDT #8587 of 28476
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
t checks
t sees nothing from Beverly
t weeps
Beverly - Mar 15, 2009 6:39:39 pm PDT #8588 of 28476
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
(Sorry, minor distraction. Should be there now)
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Dana - Mar 15, 2009 6:41:44 pm PDT #8589 of 28476
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
There it is!
Consuela - Mar 16, 2009 8:45:14 pm PDT #8590 of 28476
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love McKinley's early work so much, which is why Dragonhaven was such a disappointment. Unless things change radically, I won't be buying any more of her novels. ::sigh::
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2009 9:17:00 pm PDT #8591 of 28476
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can you go into more details about Dragonhaven, 'Suela? What was so wrong with it? It sounds like you think it was the start of a trend, as opposed to an exception.
Fay - Mar 17, 2009 2:12:25 am PDT #8592 of 28476
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I didn't hate Dragonhaven. I thought it was fine, and fairly likeable, but it was no Blue Sword.
Kate P. - Mar 17, 2009 3:35:18 am PDT #8593 of 28476
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Not Suela, but I also really disliked Dragonhaven, and I've loved what I've read of her earlier books. My biggest problem with Dragonhaven was that the protagonist-narrator's voice was incredibly obnoxious and nearly incoherent. He seemed to be halfway to creating his own new slang, or grammar, such that I could barely understand some of the sentences themselves. And I couldn't really figure out why it had to be that way; his way of speaking didn't seem to be germane to the plot or setting or even an interesting facet of his character. I mean, I'm down with innovative uses of language to illuminate something about the story or the characters or the world they inhabit, but that didn't seem to be the case here. It was just... hard to understand, and made the story draaaaaaaag.
I haven't read her latest, Chalice, so I can't speak to whether or not it's a return to form.