They are really good. Like I said, the first one got my stuborn, non-reading son to read it all the way through and pick up the second one un-prodded.
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
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."
DawnK - Sep 04, 2009 10:51:51 am PDT #9942 of 28385
giraffe mode
Barb - Sep 04, 2009 3:16:27 pm PDT #9943 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Oh Tep, these sound great! I'm going to have to remember to pick those up for Nate-- sounds completely up his alley.
megan walker - Sep 05, 2009 6:53:16 am PDT #9944 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Going way back to lisah:
I just finished the first book in the Dark is Rising series. I read it because there was such an uproar about the movie adaptation and I had to see what people were being so passionate about. And I have to say I just don't get it. It was quite a slog.
Is the first book just a dud and the rest are more exciting? I was totally skimming at the end just to finish it.
I hope the second part is true, since I was looking forward to the series once I saw the description in that Newsweek list someone posted. For such a short book it took me quite awhile to get through. But I think I would have really liked it had I read it growing up.
I also took The Dark is Rising out at the same time so I will give it a go.
In the meantime, I'm reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians. It's promising so far. And starts off in my old neighborhood of Park Slope!
Hil R. - Sep 05, 2009 6:59:12 am PDT #9945 of 28385
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just finished the first volume of The Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters and bought the second volume. Pretty good so far. At first, I really hated one of the main characters, but she's slowly starting to grow on me.
-t - Sep 05, 2009 7:09:14 am PDT #9946 of 28385
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
George R. R. Martin is eating my brain.
I know I really loved the Dark is Rising series when I read it as a kid, but I remember remarkable little about the story.
Pix - Sep 05, 2009 7:40:18 am PDT #9947 of 28385
The status is NOT quo.
I know I really loved the Dark is Rising series when I read it as a kid, but I remember remarkable little about the story.
-t is me. I loved those books intensely, but it's been 25 years since I read them.
Jessica - Sep 05, 2009 8:35:40 am PDT #9948 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I finished Moby Dick last night.
Mostly, it's phenomenal. There are passages in that book that I want to marry and have little half-human-half-paragraph babies with them. The language is a pure pleasure to read.
Still, for a book that's supposedly not really about whales...there was an awful lot of it that was all about whales. The infamous Catalog of Whales is nothing compared to the umpteen or so chapters that follow each devoted to "The Whale's Eye" "The Whale's Spout" "The Whale's Teeth" and so on. SO MANY FREAKING WHALES.
sj - Sep 05, 2009 9:05:13 am PDT #9949 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
megan, based only on the description I have read about The Magicians, it makes me think of Giles's misspent magical youth.
Hayden - Sep 05, 2009 9:49:57 am PDT #9950 of 28385
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I finished Moby Dick last night.
Can I get a "HELL YEAH!"?
SO MANY FREAKING WHALES.
Ah, but they're allegorical whales. Except when they're not.
Jessica - Sep 05, 2009 9:58:41 am PDT #9951 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, the word "effulgent" is used in this book approximately eighteen-jillion times. Spike would be proud.