I've read some of the Lonesome Dove novels -- but none of the Barrybender books.
It's all about the coat.
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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."
sumi - May 20, 2005 9:57:11 am PDT #7725 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Nutty - May 20, 2005 10:01:43 am PDT #7726 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Having a poor understanding of the word "epic," I read Lonesome Dove in high school and found it irritatingly meandering and pointless. It wasn't that the characters weren't likable and interesting, it was that the story didn't seem to have much point beyond "They set out, they traveled for a long time, they got there, and then some of them went home."
I wanted more of a classic dramatic action, I guess. No, I've never read James Michener, either, although I got about 400 years into Sarum, the Edward Rutherfurd novel about primordial Britain, before crapping out with the annoyingness of Late Neandertal interclan marriage.
Jessica - May 20, 2005 10:06:21 am PDT #7727 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I loved Sarum, absurd multigenerational incestuousness nonwithstanding.
His other England book Forest, lost me about 40 pages in, right after the deer sex scene told from the pov of a stag.
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 10:49:34 am PDT #7728 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
right after the deer sex scene told from the pov of a stag.
You prefer to look at things from a more doe-like angle?
Jessica - May 20, 2005 10:50:25 am PDT #7729 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I prefer my reading material to be sans animal-pov-sex-scenes entirely.
DavidS - May 20, 2005 10:51:02 am PDT #7730 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I prefer my reading material to be sans animal-pov-sex-scenes entirely.
Dang, you're fussy.
Steph L. - May 20, 2005 10:51:41 am PDT #7731 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I prefer my reading material to be sans animal-pov-sex-scenes entirely.
So, no Anita Blake books, then?
Jessica - May 20, 2005 10:52:53 am PDT #7732 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There's bestiality in those too? I thought it was just vampires.
Steph L. - May 20, 2005 10:55:31 am PDT #7733 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There's bestiality in those too? I thought it was just vampires.
Oh, no -- Anita has other lovers of the were- persuasion.
You see, in the crazy melty world known as the Anita Blake-verse, there are werewolves. And wereleopards. And wererats. No, seriously. Wererats. (That was the point where I lost all ability to take the books seriously.) And other were-types that I can no longer remember.
And Anita has fucked the leader of all of the groups, I'm pretty sure.
Atropa - May 20, 2005 10:56:02 am PDT #7734 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I prefer my reading material to be sans animal-pov-sex-scenes entirely.
So, no Anita Blake books, then?
runs off to COMM ...