Speaking of Bujold, I just read and adored Paladin of Souls (a sequel to The Curse of Chalion, but featuring different characters). I know I should read the Vorkosigan series, but I'm overwhelmed by the sheer size of it.
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Susan W. - Jan 13, 2004 6:12:44 pm PST #496 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Ginger - Jan 13, 2004 6:17:17 pm PST #497 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I know I should read the Vorkosigan series, but I'm overwhelmed by the sheer size of it.
Once you start reading it, you'll find it's not nearly big enough.
t Waiting for the next one
Jessica - Jan 13, 2004 6:19:07 pm PST #498 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've already discovered that every Miles book is out of print.
Wait, WHAT? Dude!
I mean, I already own all of them, but this makes it much more difficult to pimp Miles out to all my friends.
(Even if I was kind of disappointed in Diplomatic Immunity. It's the first one ever where I've had trouble following the plot.)
[Susan, I regularly reread the entire series in about a week, and end up sad that there's not more. There's a lot of them, but they go fast.]
Consuela - Jan 13, 2004 9:02:01 pm PST #499 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Even if I was kind of disappointed in Diplomatic Immunity
You're not the only one. Sigh. I'm hoping for an Ivan-focused one soon. Ivan needs to meet a tough and sexy Galactic girl to knock some sense into him and then ravish him. Heh.
Man, I need to find a copy of Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance. Those are so good, and I don't have them. Argh.
Volans - Jan 14, 2004 3:49:36 am PST #500 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I just got Mirror Dance used thru half.com. I could wait to get the intervening books and read them in order, but, nah.
Jessica - Jan 14, 2004 4:40:21 am PST #501 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mirror Dance would probably be my favorite of the entire series, if I had to pick. That or Komarr. Or maybe Memory.
I'm hoping for an Ivan-focused one soon.
Ooh, that would be fun.
Vortex - Jan 14, 2004 5:05:52 am PST #502 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I like "preternatural" and you never see it.
Except on every other page of Anne Rice's books! At least, such is my memory of them.
and fairly frequently in the Laurell K. Hamilton genre.
Jesse - Jan 14, 2004 5:06:47 am PST #503 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was thinking, I must be reading the wrong stuff, because I swear I see "preturnatural" all the freaking time. And I haven't read Rice in ten years, or Hamilton ever.
erikaj - Jan 14, 2004 5:06:48 am PST #504 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
amych - Jan 14, 2004 5:10:08 am PST #505 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I like "preternatural" and you never see it.
I mostly associate "preternatural" with the wacky linguistic stylings of the early years of Spy magazine.