Hey Bookworm, What Are You READING?

[jmervyn]

Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey, the second in a series.

A bit overwritten, like the first, but would make a great airport book. A hell of a lot better than standard juvenile fantasy fare; the premise is X-rated (the heroine is more or less a submissive plaything) but the plot is decent and innovative.

[BobCox2]

Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey, the second in a series.

A bit overwritten, like the first, but would make a great airport book. A hell of a lot better than standard juvenile fantasy fare; the premise is X-rated (the heroine is more or less a submissive plaything) but the plot is decent and innovative.

Twilight et al. Has sparked a Romance of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers.

I got to give it credit for that.

I've seen some good stuff come out of it.

[jmervyn]

Twilight et al. Has sparked a Romance of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers.

I got to give it credit for that.

I've seen some good stuff come out of it.

I contest that belief; I'd say that Anne Rice was the one responsible for the resurgence and that whoever scribbled Twilight was just hitching their freight-car to her train.

The Kushiel series isn't very supernatural at all, but it's kind of nice to have some "truly" adult fantasy fiction; I tend to believe that writers decided that the Dragonlance and Redwall series established fantasy as purely children/young adult's genre. Used to not be the case at all... :-(

[BobCox2]

I contest that belief; I'd say that Anne Rice was the one responsible for the resurgence and that whoever scribbled Twilight was just hitching their freight-car to her train.

The Kushiel series isn't very supernatural at all, but it's kind of nice to have some "truly" adult fantasy fiction; I tend to believe that writers decided that the Dragonlance and Redwall series established fantasy as purely children/young adult's genre. Used to not be the case at all... :-(

Anne Rice is the Godmother of it agreed
but it took a while, and I think Twilight (by being so bad and yet such a success) Sparked such a slush pile to the editors and publishers that a few decent series have come out amid all the crap like twilight.
Yet Dark Shadows was ultra uber crap and has been refined

It's a fearless field for fiction.

Girls do it a lot.

[stillman]

Does anyone use Wattpad? You can now explore the dark and ****ed up halls of stillman's mind by reading this story I posted on there. I think you need facebook, though.

http://www.wattpad.com/4337984-snowe...2012-chapter-1


"The future North America has a way of cleaning out its least successful plebeians--by taking their money, then their lives. A strange entrepreneur with an unearthly talent for marksmanship offers his clients a timelier means of escape."

[pancakeman]

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That's what she said.



Um, not it is Stalin's Famine and Roosevelt's Recognition by Wayne Morris, who taught at LMC several years ago. Great book, amazing reference work, and undoubtedly the best prose of any historical text I have yet read on the subject.

[Frosty_The_Snowman]

Maury France 2012 Stamp Catalogue right now

[LozHinge the Unhinged]

Having somewhat enjoyed Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon a few months back, I am working me way through the equally pithy Star Maker by the same author.
It's fairly chunky stuff, but I made sure I read some Perry Rhodan stories in between. For lubrication, you understand.

[BobCox2]

Now that is Old school Hard and soft Sci-Fi, I waded through it once. He came up with a lot of concepts that everyone else expanded on.

[LozHinge the Unhinged]

Yep, look up archetype in the dictionary and there's a picture of Olaf. Astonishing imagination and sometimes capable of some pleasing literary flourishes, too.

Typical. I finally decide to give the OTF another go (after that really disappointing Newton's Cooling Curve thread I raised) and some spam monkey bot is washing over my postings in other threads like a biblical flood

Edit: woot, the spam's been cleaned out. Top-ho!