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Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert. I thought I'd hate it, but I didn't. I think I'm fairly neutral on it overall. It felt a bit smug at times. What, you mean everyone can't run off for a year and move to Italy and then head to India to live on at an ashram?

Sir Apropos of Nothing, Peter David. Oh god, the puns. (The insane male offspring of the Harpies? They're called the Harpers Bizarre.)

King Solomon's Ring, Konrad Lorenz.

Small Favor, Jim Butcher.

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Richard Preston. If an enormous redwood falls in a book and nobody's around to hear me sniffling about it, did the weepy stuff really happen?

Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, Edward Gorman (ed.). Spotty.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow. For some reason, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. If I'd known at the time I bought this (for like $1.50-ish) that it would be so hard to find, I'd have picked up a few extra copies for friends.

A Lick of Frost, Laurell K. Hamilton. Why do her heroines go from "interesting" to "Emo McWhinypants" over the course of the series? Without going into specifics, my reaction to the ending was "Jubnu, QRHF RK ZNPUVAN! Naq n fghcvq bar, ng gung. Jryy, gung'f njshyyl qnza pbairavrag, vaavg? Naq lrg zber natfg, bu wbl."

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Regarding the last comment, Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Gesundheit! =)

Sorry... cold... and Old One.

Erpbtavmrq gur EBG13 sebz trbpnpuvat uvagf... :-)

I find that I have to turn to TV or movies to explain the concept of a qrhf rk znpuvan to my Intro to Lit students, even after going into the origins of the term.

This one was especially ludicrous, even for LKH. Oy.

Goddamnit. I was going to change my journal subtitle to that! :P

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It seems they go from "interesting characters and some tasty sex" -> "well, at least there's still tasty sex, but maybe a bit too much of it at the expense of little details like forward movement in the plot" -> "what redeeming characteristics *does* this have anymore?"

I keep reading them because I actually do want to find out what happens, but I've stopped buying them and instead get them from the library.

Now I want to write a book just so I can have a character named Emo McWhinypants.

I'd buy that. =)

I'm in the small minority of people who are underwhelmed by Cory D's opus. I think what got me cranky was the sense that it wasn't radical enough, wasn't really imagining a world that I want to help build. So sue me, I want my possible futures to be greater than that! It wasn't bad, but it was a Hershey kiss when I thought the box might hold a Godiva truffle.

Muchly agreed about _Sir Apropos of Nothing_. I'll forgive a lot if the puns are painful and contrived!

I had to put the next book in the series ("The Woad to Wuin") down until I stopped laughing because one chapter is called "In the Shadow of Ba'Da'Boom". (Made even worse/better by the fact that the author wrote for B5.)