I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Very reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale."
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Gandalfe - Oct 04, 2005 11:22:50 am PDT #9216 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2005 1:15:31 pm PDT #9217 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That makes me want to read it even more.
Gandalfe - Oct 04, 2005 1:58:28 pm PDT #9218 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I thought it would. It should, in fact.
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2005 10:24:37 am PDT #9219 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Consuela - Oct 09, 2005 8:18:36 am PDT #9220 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
sumi - Oct 09, 2005 9:29:48 am PDT #9221 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
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!
Volans - Oct 09, 2005 9:42:18 am PDT #9222 of 10002
move out and draw fire
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.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2005 4:59:50 pm PDT #9223 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Anyone reading Anansi Boys? Dear god, I am LOVING it.
DebetEsse - Oct 09, 2005 5:01:01 pm PDT #9224 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I am, and I am. I'm maybe 2/3 through. Very fun. I do think I liked American Gods more, though.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2005 5:05:08 pm PDT #9225 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm maybe 2/3 of the way through, too. I may go back and re-read American Gods when I'm finished. I really liked American Gods, but it was also intellectually tough slogging, for me.