I have a vague mission to clean out some of the drawers in my room at my parents' house. I didn't get much time to poke through things this time around, but during a cursory drawer investigation I discovered in my 9th-grade Latin notebook a horrifying treasure trove.

( Doodles, circa 2000 )

OK, guys, as you know, I've read ... a lot of Sheri Tepper. TOO MUCH Sheri Tepper. Too much by far.

I'm pretty sure Fish Tails is the worst? Maybe the actual worst. Tepper's books range wildly on the 'somewhat bizarre' to 'outright horrific' scale, but they're usually at least entertaining. Fish Tails, however, is not only ideologically ( Read more... )

Oh, lord. OK. So for winter holidays last year, my VERY DEAR FRIEND
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For the 17th, for the December meme (so behind!)
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December requested posts thing the second: five most cracktastic plot twists I have ever encountered, for
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A few months ago I went to stay chez varadia, and we got into a long discussion about Sheri S. Tepper, as you do. When I left, she pressed a Tepper book into my hands and announced, "It's the one with CEPHALOPOD MERBABIES."

So I read The Waters Rising!

The weird thing about The Waters Rising is not actually the cephalopod merbabies. . . . All right, ( Read more... )

Because once was not enough: more Sheri S. Tepper nostalgia reading of WTF!

The True Game (it's a trilogy, but I had it in one volume so I think of it as one) follows a teenaged boy named Peter in a world that's structured like a D&D game: when they start to develop powers after leaving school, everyone gets a cool classification like Necromancer ( Read more... )

For those of you who have never read anything by Sheri S. Tepper, the thing about Sheri S. Tepper is that almost every one of her books is a Very Special Episode about Eco-Feminism Plus Some Other Stuff Sheri Tepper Really Wants To Talk About, As Filtered Through Enormous Amounts of Crack. My local library had about a million of her books when I ( Read more... )