I don't remember a letdown like that. I should reread it anyway.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2010 7:18:17 pm PST #10808 of 28733
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Strix - Jan 25, 2010 7:21:14 pm PST #10809 of 28733
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
please do, cause I was confuzzled by it.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2010 7:46:14 pm PST #10810 of 28733
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thanks to IO9's pointing it out and Jessica's enthusiastic endorsement I am now reading Charles Stoss' Glasshouse.
I'm just getting started but it's (a) fascinating; (b) has a lot of resonance with Dollhouse (so far).
Thanks, Jess!
erin_obscure - Jan 25, 2010 7:56:51 pm PST #10811 of 28733
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Dang, i just searched my library catalogue for _Soulless_ and there is but one title hit, which is about Anne Coulter. Ouch. Do not want.
Erin, i felt the same way about the ending of that book. She really should have written the third book.
meara - Jan 26, 2010 7:26:39 am PST #10812 of 28733
I read Glasshouse also, thanks to io9 and the library. I was all "science fiction and genderfuck, how could I not love it?" and parts of it I did, but other parts I more just wanted to smack the characters for being dumbasses.
Katerina Bee - Jan 26, 2010 3:42:16 pm PST #10813 of 28733
Herding cats for fun
I just lent my copy of "Parable of the Sower" to a junior college student next door. I eagerly await his thoughts about it all, because... I really cannot remember anything about the plot. Isn't that sad? All my other OEB books, yes: little bits of memory cling to their covers and remind me what I found between them. I so look forward to talking with anyone who's read some Butler.
I thought her last book would have been better if she'd lived long enough to do one last polishing of her prose, but the publisher released what she'd written anyway.
DebetEsse - Jan 26, 2010 4:11:11 pm PST #10814 of 28733
Woe to the fucking wicked.
By chance, is anyone reading Shades of Grey, the new Jasper Fforde?
erin_obscure - Jan 26, 2010 8:50:08 pm PST #10815 of 28733
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Want! (but no, have not yet read it.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 26, 2010 10:16:47 pm PST #10816 of 28733
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finished my Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z double-feature. Two undead thumbs up!
erin_obscure - Jan 27, 2010 3:29:53 am PST #10817 of 28733
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Ugh, i just finished _The Vampire Diaries_. Ugh. Can i say ugh enough? I mean, i was expectecting trash but it truly went above and beyond in the final book. Angels, Malachs and Kitsunes in a wild jumble of non-sensicle-ness, like the author did some research and just tossed in handfuls of "other" for shits and giggles. Beyond unfulfilling.