I just saw that Jack Williamson died [link] I had started to hope he was going to live forever. He was such a nice guy.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
Ginger - Nov 20, 2006 8:37:44 pm PST #1596 of 28596
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
§ ita § - Nov 25, 2006 5:26:25 pm PST #1597 of 28596
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does Terry Goodkind write good books? I mean, is there an overarching context that can make one excuse these snippets of evil chicken?
beth b - Nov 25, 2006 8:38:23 pm PST #1598 of 28596
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I have no idea where those quotes cam from . I adored the first few books.( at least the first two ) but while I read the ( 4th?) I wanted to throw it across the room. I was bored and frustrated. so I might have missed the parts about the chicken
Strix - Nov 26, 2006 6:39:16 am PST #1599 of 28596
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, I remember the evil chicken! I think it actually was in book one. I read the first 4 or 5 books, but then they just got terribly tedious and uninteresting, and I am a lover of the long series of books.
sumi - Nov 29, 2006 7:20:40 am PST #1600 of 28596
Art Crawl!!!
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet? (And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
Kate Elliott has a new book out too.
Ouise - Nov 29, 2006 9:12:24 am PST #1601 of 28596
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet?
I'm sorry to say that I didn't like it that much. Not that I disliked it, exactly, it was just unsubstantial and not very original. I think that what I most missed in comparison to her other books was energy - there was a certain placidity to it, even during action.
I didn't like The Hallowed Hunt much either, which makes me nervous.
Nicklas - Nov 29, 2006 2:06:02 pm PST #1602 of 28596
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
FINALLY! I will get drunk right now celebrating this. Ehh, It's late, I'll celebrate tomorrow.
Consuela - Nov 29, 2006 3:13:40 pm PST #1603 of 28596
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay, new Vorkosigan! Is it the long-awaited Ivan novel? Because Ivan totally needs a book to himself, in which he gets swept off his feet by
me some Galactic hottie.
meara - Nov 29, 2006 3:13:57 pm PST #1604 of 28596
I did read Sharing Knife--I was a little annoyed by the ending, cause it was very "OK, and now on to the next book!" and didn't feel particularily wrapped up, if you will. But I enjoyed it, a little more than the Hallowed Hunt ones, I think, though it felt...lighter? more fluffy (though the subject matter wasn't, especially)?
Haven't read the new Elliot--can anyone say, is it more like her Jaran books, or more like her other series? Cause I tried to get into the other one, and just couldn't.
sumi - Nov 29, 2006 4:32:57 pm PST #1605 of 28596
Art Crawl!!!
I haven't read either (yet).
I loved the first book of the Crown of Stars series - - but the rest didn't quite live up to it. (I'm not done yet.) I think I liked the dogs. . .
I need to reread the Jaran series. It's been forever.