I really hope this doesn't come across as one giant rambling bit of nonsense, but here goes ( Read more... )

How is it that I never knew about Google's series of lectures/Q&A sessions with various authors or other public figures? I'm right in the middle of James Randi @GoogleTalks and have already gone through the Christopher Hitchens one. I'll be moving on to Barack Obama next, then Neil Gaiman, then Paul Krugman, then maybe Salman Rushdie followed by ( Read more... )

arkeus recently informed me of this amazing bit of news

Terry Goodkind, author of the stellar (if we pretend that word has no meaning) Sword of Truth series, has apparently written a new story ( Read more... )

Let me get this straight. The Mary Sue/Self-Insertion author-protagonist of the Twilight series is a perfect beautiful jewel of a girl whose only flaw is that she's clumsy ( Read more... )

There is a Star Trek fic based on the new (and incredible) movie that several people have recced so far ( Read more... )

There are some monumentally stupid Xander fans out there. I mean, so stupid that I feel a little dirty for being a Xander fan. This is not a new revelation, of course. There's a reason I don't get involved in any discussions at XanderZone anymore. I just hadn't realized that the infection of idiocy that existed there a few years ago had spread ( Read more... )

Every year or so I do the same thing.

I pick up Ender's Game. I read it. I love it.

Then I pick up Speaker for the Dead. I read it. I like it, maybe even love it.

Then I pick up Xenocide. I start reading it. I start noticing little bits of misogyny, vague racism, and an underlying premise that women exist to "have men's babies," and that this is ( Read more... )

So I'm reading this somewhat older Xander fanfic right now. It's a multi-crossover fic and it's one that is surprisingly not mentioned too often, given how big it is. I won't name names mostly because of what I have to say about it ( Read more... )

I don't have nearly enough energy to respond personally to all of you right now., but I'll try to tomorrow or this weekend. Suffice it to say my expectations were exceeded by a wide margin, and now I'm not even sure where to begin. So thank you all, and by the way, if I don't have much See Noir Evil in the next few months, it's because I'm busy ( Read more... )

Being rather ill lately has made me want to curl up with a good book (or audiobook, thanks to migraines), but the problem is I tend to have a hard time finding a book I can really get into. For the last two years I've asked all of you out there to recommend TV shows to me, and I've gotten into some great shows because of that - Avatar: The Last ( Read more... )