Um, if you finish, you can get on with your life? Now, I've not read the book, so maybe you want to hear it gets better later or something, but I can't help there.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
erikaj - Jul 25, 2004 10:27:21 am PDT #5313 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Betsy HP - Jul 25, 2004 10:30:13 am PDT #5314 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Not me. Life is too short to read unenjoyable bad books. If they aren't fun, they've lost their raison d'etre.
erikaj - Jul 25, 2004 10:33:00 am PDT #5315 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Sometimes even bad ones suck me in at least enough that I want to know what happens. Or how much they can suck. Or something.
Jessica - Jul 25, 2004 10:34:26 am PDT #5316 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sometimes even bad ones suck me in at least enough that I want to know what happens. Or how much they can suck. Or something.
Case in point, I read all three Dune prequels. It's not something I'm proud of.
Lyra Jane - Jul 25, 2004 10:51:35 am PDT #5317 of 10002
Up with the sun
I have a hard enough time finishing books I enjoy, let alone ones I don't. Read the last five pages so you know how it ends and then throw it across the room, Ginger.
JoeCrow - Jul 25, 2004 11:35:21 am PDT #5318 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Case in point, I read all three Dune prequels. It's not something I'm proud of.
t boggles
Dang. That's ... impressive, in a perverse sort of way.
As for Borderland stuff, John M. Ford also wrote a pretty good offbrand Borderland novel, The Last Hot Time. Not sure why it wasn't explicitly part of the brand, but it's definitely set there(ish).
JohnSweden - Jul 25, 2004 12:08:49 pm PDT #5319 of 10002
I can't even.
As for Borderland stuff, John M. Ford also wrote a pretty good offbrand Borderland novel, The Last Hot Time. Not sure why it wasn't explicitly part of the brand, but it's definitely set there(ish).
Thanks Joe, that's a good tip. I had missed that one. It does seem Borderland-esque from the reviews. He did hang out with that crowd (wrote for the Liavek shared world), but I do wonder why it was off-brand. Creative or contractual differences?
Consuela - Jul 25, 2004 12:15:33 pm PDT #5320 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have no idea. There's a couple of characters in the novel that look exactly like some Bordertown characters, but act entirely differently.
I'm told (and Micole would know more than I) that The Last Hot Time is actually a roman a clef about ... I dunno. People that Ford knows. But there's also the whole thing that the plot is so well-hidden you have to read it three times to have it make any sense.
I always feel deeply stupid after reading a novel by John M. Ford. IJS.
Betsy HP - Jul 25, 2004 1:33:33 pm PDT #5321 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Me, too. But in a good way.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 25, 2004 3:25:28 pm PDT #5322 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I bought more Laurel K. Hamilton Anita Blake books after reading my first one. I plead Buffy withdrawal.