Siren Song, by Margaret Atwood
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• What are you currently reading?
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood. I tried this once before and gave up because I was not in the mood for a terrible person in a terrible situation, whose memories of "happier times" are even worse, and whose future does not look promising. I am reading it now for book group but I am still not in that mood.
I have loved other things written by Margaret Atwood, so I don't know why this is so very not for me. Hypothesis: I do not like science fiction written by people who claim they don't write science fiction. Yeah, I didn't like The Handmaid's Tale much either. I would like to test this hypothesis. Can you suggest other works of science fiction whose authors claim they are not science fiction?
• What did you recently finish reading?
I've browsed through several poetry books, but have not read any cover-to-cover.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Back to Multiplication is for White People.
I love this poem.
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood. I tried this once before and gave up because I was not in the mood for a terrible person in a terrible situation, whose memories of "happier times" are even worse, and whose future does not look promising. I am reading it now for book group but I am still not in that mood.
I have loved other things written by Margaret Atwood, so I don't know why this is so very not for me. Hypothesis: I do not like science fiction written by people who claim they don't write science fiction. Yeah, I didn't like The Handmaid's Tale much either. I would like to test this hypothesis. Can you suggest other works of science fiction whose authors claim they are not science fiction?
• What did you recently finish reading?
I've browsed through several poetry books, but have not read any cover-to-cover.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Back to Multiplication is for White People.
I love this poem.
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Date: 2013-04-11 07:35 am (UTC)Doris Lessing's 'Canopus in Argos' sequence? or her Memoirs of a Survivor. Although I think Lessing actually considered these works science fiction (and was pals with Naomi Mitchison, who also considered her sf to be sf and not something else).
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Date: 2013-04-11 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-11 01:32 pm (UTC)Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, maybe? I really loved it, partly because I went in knowing NOTHING about it (this was long before the movie, which I haven't seen).
(I remember liking The Handmaid's Tale but I read it a long time ago. I never read Oryx and Crake though.)
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Date: 2013-04-11 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-04-12 04:37 pm (UTC)