Amy,
I will leave megan's response as my own. I don't think you are prepared for the WTF.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'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."
le nubian - Feb 15, 2013 7:55:41 am PST #20437 of 28706
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi - Feb 15, 2013 7:57:04 am PST #20438 of 28706
Art Crawl!!!
I am reading an essay in a monograph about Colombian artist Omar Rayo and the essayist brought up The Silmarillion.
I don't think I've ever had a Tolkien book brought up in an art history essay.
(Essay is slow going - for me because it is in Spanish and my Spanish is pretty darn rusty.)
Liese S. - Feb 15, 2013 8:37:42 am PST #20439 of 28706
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The Long Earth strikes me as a great worldbuilding platform. Something it would be fun to write fic for.
-t - Feb 15, 2013 8:39:49 am PST #20440 of 28706
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Right? Practically designed for it.
Dana - Feb 15, 2013 8:56:13 am PST #20441 of 28706
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Dana might appreciate this: one of the Tor bloggers is doing a periodic review of old Paramount Star Trek: TOS tie-in novels.
Interesting. Although I mostly completely disagree with her. She likes "Enterprise: The First Adventure" more than "Final Frontier"?
Connie Neil - Feb 15, 2013 9:21:57 am PST #20442 of 28706
brillig
I was reading some of those reviews, and it seems silly to be judging the books for not showing sufficiently advanced technology. They seemed plenty futuristic to me when I read them. I need to find the Diane Duane books again, I think they're in the garage.
EpicTangent - Feb 15, 2013 9:32:07 am PST #20443 of 28706
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Huh. I had no idea she wrote Trek books. But I think you've just inspired me to put the So You Want to be a Wizard series up next on the to-be-re-read list.
Gris - Feb 15, 2013 3:44:44 pm PST #20444 of 28706
Hey. New board.
Oh the wizard books! Good stuff. I lost track of them around the eighth book though - eight is too many of most things.
Amy - Feb 15, 2013 5:41:01 pm PST #20445 of 28706
Because books.
I will leave megan's response as my own. I don't think you are prepared for the WTF.
I'm now three-quarters of the way through [Gone Girl], and holy shit. Unprepared is an understatement.
Dana - Feb 15, 2013 6:06:12 pm PST #20446 of 28706
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Yeah, I agree about the wizard series. I enjoy them, but they keep getting more and more complicated. Which is true of her Star Trek books as well.