We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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 enjoyed
Oryx and Crake
because I liked the message that Atwood was trying to highlight - the dangers of genetic modification of animals. I think she pulled off the intermixing of the different periods of time well, but not as well as in
The Blind Assassin.
Then again, TBA is my most favourite Atwood, and on my top 10 favourite books.
Has anyone here read anything by Robin Jarvis? She a british YA author. Right now I'm reading book 2 of the Wyrd Museum trilogy (I think you'd like these Ouise) and I'm wondering if her other trilogies are good as well.
I found Handmaid's Tale quiet in tone, but took that to mean that the disaster in civil rights had already happened, outrage was exhausted, and resignation was all Ofglen had left. The atmosphere was creepy and insidious, like Hill House.
I have a question about Handmaid's Tale. (I haven't read it - saw the movie a long time ago. I liked it a lot, actually. Kinda strange for me.)
Anyway...why weren't the men sterile? Why just the women?
(I think you'd like these Ouise)
I've noticed some of her books - I'll have to try some. Thanks for the recommendation.
Anyway...why weren't the men sterile? Why just the women?
Because their culture insisted that that was the case. Rather like a lot of history, really. (Like Henry VIII divorcing/executing all those wives, never considering that
he might be the problem.)
Re: Handmaid's Tale: Not everybody was sterile, there were widespread infertility problems due to the toxic environment. So powerful men wishing to reproduce were assigned Handmaids of previous, proven fertility to try their luck at planting their little wigglers.
OK, so on a whim I took
Live and Let Die
out of the library. I don't think I can finish it. Beside the incongruity of having a Guns-n-Roses remake of a Wings song in my head while I read this book set in the 50s, I just finished the chapter called "Nigger Heaven." I shit you not. Will it continue to be this bad?
Thanks, Ouise and KB. Makes sense.
Well, not real sense. Dystopic society sense. Effed up royal family sense.
IOW, no sense at all, but there ya go.
My cubicle roomie at work recently got me slightly hooked on the
In Death
series by J.D. Robb.
Admittedly, I mostly skimmed the first book since Robb's descriptions continually pulled me out of the story through the first 15 or so pages. The mystery portion was lacking but the relationship aspect played well and I especially liked that the relationship wasn't the main focus. Typical romance novels and I are usually non-mixy... however, I've been pleasantly surprised by Crusie and Robb. So far.
The second and third books of the series show improved suspense. I've only finished the third book in the series just this last weekend, but looking forward to more. (Cubicle roomie brought me three more today but I forgot about them and left them at work.)
By the time you get to like, the 10th-16th book, they are really good. Then, they start to feel like she's just churning them out.
(You know it's Nora Roberts, right?)
