There are times when I really believe that Caitlin R. Kiernan wants to grow up to be Harlan Ellison.
To paraphrase a fannish response usually attributed to Robert Silverberg, "Shall we kill her now?"
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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 - Dec 01, 2011 4:06:43 pm PST #16966 of 28701
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Atropa - Dec 02, 2011 11:38:09 am PST #16967 of 28701
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, Caitlin Kiernan. She's a great prose stylist, but ooooh, such a drama-generator.
Ahahahaha. Yes. Yes she is. Her loathing-filled rants about ebooks are kind of amazing.
Consuela - Dec 02, 2011 2:46:58 pm PST #16968 of 28701
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Her loathing-filled rants about ebooks are kind of amazing
Seriously? Oh, dear.
I got to know her a bit during the Farscape campaign, because she's a big fan--she used to cosplay Chiana at con (dunno if she still does), but she got very spun up, and her agent recommended that she cool it. Which was wise, I suspect.
Atropa - Dec 02, 2011 2:59:24 pm PST #16969 of 28701
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yeah, she is Very Against This New-Fangled Tech, because paper books are ... sacred? I'm not sure.
She doesn't cosplay Chiana any more, but I know she did a great job of it.
She's a wonderful person (I kinda-sorta know her), but she occasionally starts emulating Harlan in the ranting department.
sumi - Dec 02, 2011 6:27:57 pm PST #16970 of 28701
Art Crawl!!!
Would Fay's story be part of this collection?
smonster - Dec 03, 2011 5:13:44 am PST #16971 of 28701
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
sumi, no. I have that book and by "tiny", they mean "one sentence." It's a delightful little book, but I don't believe Fay contributed.
Atropa - Dec 04, 2011 10:33:37 am PST #16972 of 28701
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Book and tattoo geekery! The next tattoo I'm getting is the memorial tattoo for my Mom. But I figured out the tattoo that comes *after* that one. I'm re-reading The Historian (I'm planning on doing a Nocturnal House post about it), and hit the section where they discover a family that is distantly descended from Vlad the Impaler, and that it is a family tradition to tattoo one child in each generation with a small image of the Tzepesh Dracul dragon, for protection.
You people see where I'm going with this, right? Because, hey, I really am a descendant (by way of a poor serving maid, but still!), and I'm a Dracula geek. Now I just have to decide where I'll have it done. I'm idly thinking of the front of my right shoulder.
le nubian - Dec 04, 2011 10:40:13 am PST #16973 of 28701
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jilli,
a friend told me that I might like The Historian. Did you like it?
Atropa - Dec 04, 2011 10:44:07 am PST #16974 of 28701
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I really like The Historian. It's a very good mix of historical research and vampires. There are parts of it that creep me out every time I read it. Plus, I know a lot of the books the author used for her references, so I can play spot-the-bibliography.
But! If you don't like books where the historical research is almost its own character, you might want to give it a pass.
Cass - Dec 04, 2011 10:50:19 am PST #16975 of 28701
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Hmm, how creepy? Violent, scary creepy or just really disturbing? Basically can I read it?