Recent content by Nellisir

I did a creative writing major in college and my thesis was a collection of fantasy short stories. Small school with a big ego about its literary reputation (Hint: I refused to read American Psycho even though it was EVERYWHERE on my campus); no teachers who read fantasy. Finally, one said he...

I basically gave up on A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear. I just couldn't get into it. Read Lies Weeping instead, by Glen Cook. Am now (re)reading Port of Shadows. My sense, a few chapters into PoS, is that you might as well just read (or reread) that first, then LW. They are...entangled.

But what about week two?

My reading is so haphazard these days, I've almost quit noticing if I've finished something. (Which I haven't, at least not since John Crowley's The Deep). But my To Be Read pile is filling up so I've got to get moving. I just started A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear (The Utopian Plot to...

Are you looking for anything of his in particular? Not an author I'm familiar with, but a couple of years ago I came into possession of a bunch of sf books of a type I don't normally read, and his stuff might be among it. (Disclaimer: it's several LARGE boxes and I might not actually be able to...

Nice group of books. (y) For my sanity, I try to restrict my "no, seriously, I need to read these next" list to what fits on the pile on my nightstand. Which gives my cats some authority over the matter and the order, an authority they exercise in a most cavalier manner. At 6am. 😑 Sometimes I...

I've had this around for years. Time to move it up to the top of the list (which is its own sort of list, currently at about 5-8 books, probably...<sigh>)

Finished John Crowley's The Deep. I really like Mr Crowley - Little, Big is one of my three "test cases" for how good a "Best Fantasy Books" list really is - and while I'm hard pressed to say what it's about - hope, or change, or big shifts occurring through little things without anyone...

I wasn't wild about the casual racism and etc, but otherwise a decent read.

I read the first one, and possibly the second, but the rest hadn't been released (or written) yet, AND I committed the commendable sin (for me) of Borrowing The First Book From The Library. Which means I have no visual prompt to remember or acquire the rest, and without that...lets just say I've...

5 years (82-87) between The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three; 4 years (1991) from that to The Waste Lands; 6 years (1997) between that Wizard and Glass; and then he had his accident in 1999 (he wrote The Little Sisters of Eluria in 1998, but it was a novella and not released as a...

It's...a certain kind of literature. From what little I know of his other work, it might be of a kind. And my reaction certainly said more about me than the book itself. I took a class in college (way, way, way back...) on Chinese Literature. The instructor was Chinese*. And it made me aware of...

I read it like 10-13 years ago. Literally hurled it across the room upon finishing it. Ranted about it. And it's been lodged in my brain ever since because...it's not wrong. If it was wrong it'd just be dumb, and it's not dumb.

The Postman was one of the very few books I reread several times as a teenager - generally I didn't ever reread a book (as I get older that's changed). The movie, obviously, was beyond disappointing.

I had a similar reaction to Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.