I have read Byatt's Possession. Brain broke. No workee.
Damn it, why don't more people write real letters?!?
Edited because apparently brain is more broke than I thought.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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."
amyparker - Jan 15, 2004 10:40:33 am PST #569 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
justkim - Jan 15, 2004 10:46:14 am PST #570 of 10002
Another social casualty...
Many, many years ago, I was involved with a guy stationed in Turkey. We wrote many longs letters to each other. It's hard work! And we certainly weren't trying to be literary or deep or profound.
deborah grabien - Jan 15, 2004 10:57:58 am PST #571 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
No, it's more what you said in your second posting: I keep thinking "Surely they can't be THAT bad." And then I get to page 20 or so and think "Yes, yes they can."
Oh, dear. Well, then - bad enabler of terrible fiction! No cookie!
erikaj - Jan 15, 2004 10:58:16 am PST #572 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
CS made the Buffista rounds and is the only LKH I have read. I might read more, I might not. And I can be a really easy audience...I love Kinsey Millhone and thought "O is For Outlaw" was the shit. As a novel, not "just" as a mystery although that is totally not a just. But, it seems like Grafton pulled back from the emotionality in that one, and I wish she hadn't. P and Q were not as good.
Polgara - Jan 15, 2004 11:00:42 am PST #573 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
when the client basically gave up because clearly Anita was too busy with the ardeur and the fashion and the ardeur to do any actual, you know, work.
- snerk* That's it, then, I think I'm officially done with her until I hear that she's reformed. But damn, I miss the fun of the earlier books. I remember when I first discovered her, with book six, and I immediately went out and bought the first five and couldn't read them fast enough.
Java cat - Jan 15, 2004 12:54:27 pm PST #574 of 10002
Not javachik
Damn it, why don't more people write real letters?!?
They're all on the internet! Much more fun.
eta: no, I hadnt heard of her, msbelle, I'll check them out. Thanks.
Kate P. - Jan 15, 2004 1:45:37 pm PST #575 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
amyparker, do you mean Possession? Such a good book, and I even read all the poetry (though I might not on a reread).
My friend just sent me Ayun Halliday's No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late for Christmas, and I am all excited to read it.
amyparker - Jan 15, 2004 2:04:45 pm PST #576 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
What did I write? t going back to look Good grief. I am mixing up Austin and Byatt. Maybe I'm the one with the messed-up brain?
deborah grabien - Jan 15, 2004 2:15:06 pm PST #577 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I am mixing up Austin and Byatt.
I did wonder - in fact, I'd made a note to see if Byatt had a new book out, maybe a riff on my favourite and One True Austen.
Volans - Jan 15, 2004 4:52:38 pm PST #578 of 10002
move out and draw fire
In between Bujold books, I just re-read Starguard by Andre Norton. This morning. I don't think I could tell you the main character's name. The book was more of a study on whether aggression is a racial trait rather than an individual trait.
Now, 30-40 years later, science fiction seems more about following a character rather than exploring an idea in metaphor. Any ideas why? Not saying one way is superior to the other, just wondering why consumer/author/publisher tastes have changed.