Raquel! I also read The Curse of Chalion all in one piece yesterday.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
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."
sumi - Jun 06, 2005 4:26:18 am PDT #7830 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Dana - Jun 07, 2005 10:19:49 am PDT #7831 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I picked up Paladin of Souls this weekend and got through about half on the plane (or in various airports).
brenda m - Jun 07, 2005 10:37:14 am PDT #7832 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I started it at lunch today.
DebetEsse - Jun 07, 2005 11:16:57 am PDT #7833 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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?
sumi - Jun 07, 2005 12:21:46 pm PDT #7834 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I picked up Paladin of Souls at the library yesterday and put a request in for The Hallowed Hunt.
Ginger - Jun 07, 2005 12:34:19 pm PDT #7835 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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.
Volans - Jun 08, 2005 6:38:41 am PDT #7836 of 10002
move out and draw fire
You know, the one complaint I have with Curse of Chalion is the paladin named Palli. That's...unfortunate.
meara - Jun 08, 2005 7:20:25 pm PDT #7837 of 10002
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??).
erikaj - Jun 08, 2005 7:59:36 pm PDT #7838 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
meara - Jun 08, 2005 8:06:14 pm PDT #7839 of 10002
And because in bad books you can't leave Quantico without being babelicious.
Hah! This is SO TRUE. All cops/FBI/CIA people in these books are either super hot(your protagonist or those he/she is attracted to), old (generally the boss, who might be "hot for an old guy"), or assholes-who-are-conveniently-ugly.