Hmmm - I'm generally suspicious of books with the word "swords" in the title, but I will bookmark your post and check them out if I ever get near the bottom of my TBR pile. (Which is at the moment about 80% scifi and 20% nonfiction. Oh, and the latest Powers.)
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2007 2:34:21 pm PST #9190 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Pix - Dec 19, 2007 2:37:33 pm PST #9191 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Jessica, Sean is right. Trust me, you won't even remember it's fantasy by the time you read a few pages. It reads more like historical fiction or political intrigue in many ways, and boy is it brutal. I love that series, too.
Not here.
brenda m - Dec 19, 2007 2:42:52 pm PST #9192 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
vw, I loved The Golden Compass. Loved loved loved. And I didn't find it antithetical to theism either, actually. The direction he takes the subsequent books is more agressively atheist,
Also more aggressively didactic, simplistic, tell-don't-show...
Sorry. Just read it last week and was not pleased. The transformation of [whitefonting in case others are reading the books now with the movie out] Lyra in particular bothered me. I'm not sure it was intended, and for a while I tried to convince myself he was trying to make a point, but jeez. "Now I must put aside my own goals and stifle my own talents to devote myself to the dreams of this boy I've met, and his angry tirades just prove that this is the way it should be." WTF ever.
That said, I really did enjoy the first book, and agree that on its own I don't think it's very agenda-driven.
erikaj - Dec 19, 2007 2:56:11 pm PST #9193 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I attempted to read those, but I didn't get it.
JZ - Dec 19, 2007 3:06:08 pm PST #9194 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hec and I were talking about that series the other day -- neither of us has read them, but we've both heard numerous people say that they loved The Golden Compass but felt like Pullman trainwrecked the series somewhere from the middle of the second book to pretty much anywhere in the third. And then we wandered to Laurell K. Hamilton's books and the Kushiel books and the Ender books and all the various series in our different TBR piles, and how someone really should compile a big master list of Exactly How Far You Should Read In Each Series, Because After Book [Whatever] The Author Drives It Right Over A Cliff.
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2007 3:07:31 pm PST #9195 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm ready to come out too!
My name is Trudy and my eyes glazed over reading Tolkien.
SuziQ - Dec 19, 2007 3:07:31 pm PST #9196 of 10002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Now that the thread is a touch quieter - is anyone available to look at my resume?
vw bug - Dec 19, 2007 3:09:05 pm PST #9197 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Oh, shit. I'm an idiot.
PCP gave me two new meds today (well, one is actually a higher dose of something I already take). Well, I took them about an hour ago, forgetting that one of them isn't supposed to be taken within five hours of my night meds, because they don't play well together. And I was going to try to go to sleep earlier tonight so I could actually get some writing done tomorrow. Grrrrrrr...
Would whoever stole my brain please return it? You really don't want it. Trust me.
vw bug - Dec 19, 2007 3:10:18 pm PST #9198 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
My name is Trudy and my eyes glazed over reading Tolkien.
W00t! I'm in the corner with Trudy! I knew I couldn't be the only one.
is anyone available to look at my resume?
Send it on over! Sorry! And yay for the interest!
Glamcookie - Dec 19, 2007 3:25:14 pm PST #9199 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Love the first two and a half His Dark Materials books (also, how cool is that title????). I didn't care for the ultimate end.