Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
I wondered if I missed some symbolism or something...help?
I'm pretty sure he was dissing the Church bigtime what with all the resurrection. Travel via archangel class ship sounds quite distressing what with the raspberry-paste factor.
"Ilium" characters travel via faxing technology. I bet this won't turn out any better than the farcasting in "Hyperioin."
I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Very reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale."
That makes me want to read it even more.
I thought it would. It should, in fact.
On a quest to recapture my literary childhood, I'm trying to track down some books. Since I found some titles I'd owned in a Kenyan bookstore, I figure the American YA books should be trivial to locate, right?
The imprint's stories were about Chicano teens and their cultural identity. The one I remember most clearly is about a teenaged boy, perhaps a runaway, who has a cardboard cutout of Che Guevara that talks to him.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
According to his publisher, Peter Beagle never got paid for the movie version of The Last Unicorn. [link]
They have a list of books for sale, but I don't actually want any of them. I'd buy an autographed edition of A Fine and Private Place or The Folk of the Air, but they're apparently out of print. Too bad.
In other news, there was a piece on NPR about the mainstreaming of science fiction. They talked to Terry Pratchett, Kazuo Ishiguru, and Susanna Clarke. They noticeably did not talk to Margaret Atwood. Heh.
It's very frustrating to have genre conventions become so inextricably entwined with content. Ah, well.
While looking for a list of books by an author (Ann C. Fallon) I came upon the Internet Book List. . .it's like the IMDB, except it's for books!
I hate that Peter S. Beagle, who is such a good author, has never been financially successful. I do wonder how someone else got legal custody of his mother.
I still think his adaption of LOTR was better than Walsh's. I wish PJ had gotten Beagle, instead of his partner and Phillipa Boyens.
Anyone reading Anansi Boys? Dear god, I am LOVING it.
I am, and I am. I'm maybe 2/3 through. Very fun. I do think I liked American Gods more, though.