It's my favorite Brust, too. Or at least the one I find deepest.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Betsy HP - May 27, 2004 12:53:57 pm PDT #2910 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - May 27, 2004 12:56:17 pm PDT #2911 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Katerina, China Court is one of my favorite novels ever. It switches back and fourth between four generations of people living in a house. It's not a Big Family Saga; just a novel about how a family thrives and fails. Godden has a lot of fun playing with the time sequence.
Pull it out of the stack. It's a winner.
Amy - May 27, 2004 1:25:10 pm PDT #2912 of 10002
Because books.
I've never read Rumer Godden, and I'm ashamed to say I'd never heard of her until Demi and Bruce named their daughter after her. Head hanging...
I'd vote for Bel Canto and Liquor, because I'd like to read both/either.
My TBR pile includes: The Iceweaver, Margaret Lawrence; I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb; Atonement, Ian McEwan; Castle Rouge, Carole Nelson Douglas; Folly, Laurie R. King; Savage Beauty, Nancy Milford; Marion Meade's biography of Dorothy Parker; After Rain, William Trevor. And that's nowhere near the whole list.
Lately, though, I don't have the energy or the time to read anything but mysteries and familiar, well-loved books, like a chapter from Wuthering Heights or the beginning of Jane and Nicholas's relationshiop from Susan Isaacs' Almost Paradise.
Hil R. - May 27, 2004 1:27:09 pm PDT #2913 of 10002
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 Life of Pi. I thought it was interesting, but I'm still sort of puzzling over what I thought of the ending.
P.M. Marc - May 27, 2004 1:44:18 pm PDT #2914 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(and the execrable Diamond Age)
You are so insane. Best. Book. Ever.
Well, one of them. I love it. Most of my RL female friends love it. We re-read it often.
The menfolk? NSM.
Ah well.
JohnSweden - May 27, 2004 2:11:55 pm PDT #2915 of 10002
I can't even.
The menfolk? NSM.
Huh? Don't think it be a gender-y thing. I'm always along for whatever rollercoaster Stephenson builds. Diamond Age rocks in my book. (err, y'know)
P.M. Marc - May 27, 2004 2:19:03 pm PDT #2916 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Huh? Don't think it be a gender-y thing.
It was a very even gender split in my local circle when it came out.
So much so that it made us blink. YLCMV, as always.
Jessica - May 27, 2004 2:23:28 pm PDT #2917 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
FWIW, Diamond Age bored me to tears.
P.M. Marc - May 27, 2004 2:25:38 pm PDT #2918 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
FWIW, Diamond Age bored me to tears.
And because it is you (given that your historical reaction to many things is the one that 'experts' claim to be the masculine one), I'm going to admit I'm tempted to take this as proof of concept.
Consuela - May 27, 2004 2:26:19 pm PDT #2919 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Diamond Age didn't work for me. I enjoyed Snow Crash and loved Cryptonomicon. YSMV.