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!
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
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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."
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.
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.
Gus - Jan 15, 2004 5:41:59 pm PST #579 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
"New Wave" SF of the early seventies (Delaney, Tiptree) is where it started. "Why" might have to do with the gradual adoption of SF as a "legit" form getting underway. $.02
Consuela - Jan 15, 2004 8:07:14 pm PST #580 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The book was more of a study on whether aggression is a racial trait rather than an individual trait.
Huh. It's been so long since I read that, I have barely any recollection. Is that the one where all that Terra has to export is soldiers? And everyone goes offplanet as mercenaries?
She did hit some real downers in the 60s, as I recall. Dark Piper was another one that felt terribly bleak.
Hmm, I picked up a Norton two-fer when I was in Boston. Voodoo Planet and Star Hunter, neither of which I've ever read. And the first one is a Solar Queen story, yay!