I just saw an ad for Robin Hobb's new series The Fitz and The Fool. I don't remember, was it declared if the Fool was a man or a woman? I know the Fool appeared as both.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2014 2:11:09 pm PDT #22615 of 28611
brillig
Pix - Aug 27, 2014 7:09:13 pm PDT #22616 of 28611
The status is NOT quo.
I just read it, Connie! The Fool is a man, though he has masqueraded as a woman. It was a great read.
I adore Robin Hobb.
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2014 7:22:48 pm PDT #22617 of 28611
brillig
Did she do anything with the less-than-subtle romantic tension that was in the end of the first books?
Gris - Aug 28, 2014 10:24:58 am PDT #22618 of 28611
Hey. New board.
I was able to get some more Skulduggery Pleasant ebooks (more) legally by tricking Kobobooks.ca into thinking I was Canadian and paying with Paypal. A pain, but at least the publishers and authors got their due.
And now I have reading to do!
Pix - Aug 28, 2014 5:14:21 pm PDT #22619 of 28611
The status is NOT quo.
Connie, she established that it was never sexual, but intimate on more of a soul level.
So yes and no. It’s really not about the two of them for most of the book.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2014 11:29:51 am PDT #22620 of 28611
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I'm reading this book on women's history, which is very good so far, but there is also something sort of weird about the copy-editing: it never puts an e in taxes. Is that a thing somewhere and I didn't know?
Strix - Aug 29, 2014 11:48:03 am PDT #22621 of 28611
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Uh...no. It's a wrong thing. WTF?
erikaj - Aug 29, 2014 7:14:06 pm PDT #22622 of 28611
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I know! And given that it's a history of how government came to be, the issue comes up a lot.(I thought that was something UKers write like we do...of all the errors.Sometimes the editing is not that great when established books are kindle-ized, but that seems oddly specific. WTF, indeed!)
Typo Boy - Aug 29, 2014 8:58:51 pm PDT #22623 of 28611
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I suspect that you are right that it is part of Kindleization. Weirdly consistent character substitutions do happen.
hippocampus - Aug 30, 2014 3:54:08 pm PDT #22624 of 28611
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, it made me so happy just now to see you and Liz Bourke twittering. Just waned to say.