Willow ,'Empty Places'
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."
OK, I read Curse of Chalion in one day, and have just ordered Paladin of Souls. Damn. I'd given up on there ever being good fantasy again.
Memory jog: This article [link] reminds me of a short story where this guy builds a dancing automaton, and its partner can't get out of its embrace and dies. Sort of a modern Red Shoes. Is this familiar to anybody? I thought it was maybe M.R. James or Le Fanu.
Raquel! I also read The Curse of Chalion all in one piece yesterday.
I picked up Paladin of Souls this weekend and got through about half on the plane (or in various airports).
I started it at lunch today.
Has anyone here read Wilson by Davind Mamet? I'm 63 pages into it, and, well, we're not getting on so good. Is it worth it to continue? Will I actually get something resembling an idea of what the Hell the Toll Hound et al are?
I picked up Paladin of Souls at the library yesterday and put a request in for The Hallowed Hunt.
I just reread both The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls before reading The Hallowed Hunt last weekend. I vote for Paladin of Souls as the best of the three.
You know, the one complaint I have with Curse of Chalion is the paladin named Palli. That's...unfortunate.
So, for my trip (I'm currently killing time before heading to the airport here in Saigon), I had a friend trade me for some mediocre science fiction--I specified mediocre so that I would have no compunction tossing them when done. One, I ended up not even reading, as it looked awful. I've since been trading them in at hostel bookshelves, or just leaving them behind (gave one to an Australian in the Seoul airport...), etc. But I was amused when I saw Raquel say "I often buy books just for their page count", cause that's so what I"m doing here...I went yesterday to a used bookstore, gave them my current books, and got three more for today and the flight to Egypt, which I mostly picked by length, rather than any goodness in them (I'm reading trashy crime books now, as they're easier to get than bad sci-fi, though one hostel did have two of the Deryni books. Why is it that serial killers in books ALWAYS start stalking the cop/coroner/psychologist??).
Because then you can do that he-said she said chapter thing. And because in bad books you can't leave Quantico without being babelicious.