FWIW, Diamond Age bored me to tears.
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
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."
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
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.
Atropa - May 27, 2004 2:28:22 pm PDT #2920 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I loved Diamond Age. Neo-Victorians, whee!
Jessica - May 27, 2004 2:28:45 pm PDT #2921 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Heh. True, that.
Katerina Bee - May 27, 2004 2:40:34 pm PDT #2922 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Betsy, "China Court" is moving to the top of the stack tonight on the strength of your recommendation. I enjoyed Rumer Godden's kid books about dolls - adored "Miss Happiness and Miss Flower" and "Little Plum." I was a bit puzzled by her "In This House of Brede," but I think that was because she presented the monastic life as deeply satisfying and I never did quite get why. Probably because I'm too pagan to grok it.
I still have to finish up with Marie Antoinette - I'm only at the Affair of the Necklace. Sure am glad nobody has Right of Entry to watch me get dressed.
"Sun, Moon & Stars..." I know I can finish that book, really.
Beverly - May 27, 2004 2:50:20 pm PDT #2923 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I loved In This House of Brede, probably because I've considered cloistered life. The details of her life before the convent have haunted me the more than ten years since I read the book, though.
Kate P. - May 27, 2004 2:51:32 pm PDT #2924 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm trying to remember what I read by Rumer Godden when I was younger. It was set in India, something about peacocks maybe? I'm pretty sure I liked it. I keep thinking the title is A Rumour of Peacocks but it's totally not, I'm just conflating her name with the title of another book I read around the same time, A Rumour of Otters (by Deborah someone, about a girl in New Zealand, anyone read it?).
Anyway. Might be time for a trip to the library...
JohnSweden - May 27, 2004 2:54:29 pm PDT #2925 of 10002
I can't even.
Kate, The Peacock Spring? "Fifteen year old Una and her younger sister Hal, are forced to join their diplomat father in New Delhi."
Kate P. - May 27, 2004 2:56:02 pm PDT #2926 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Sounds about right, yeah. I know they had unusual names.