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    io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"

    If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love

    Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?

    Steampunk Brothel Spies And Million-Year Quests, In June Books

    A Druid Saves The World In Jacqueline Carey's Latest

    Mutant Justice Comes To A Border Town in "Santa Olivia"

    Carthage Must Be Destroyed in New Kushiel Novel
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/25/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    Yay! I got the book from the library today! I can participate this time.

    If I haven't forgotten all about it by then.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    having checked the novel out of my local library (sorry to everyone looking for it in the alexandria public library system, i have the only copy) i've noticed that, given the due date, i'm likely to finish this novel with just enough time to forget it completely before the meeting. perfect.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    I can't stop myself from pointing out that Mexico is in North America...
    -Kle.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    I almost picked up Naamah's Kiss the other day but I picked up a Time Enough for Love instead. I'll go grab this tonight after I get out of work.
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    11/20/09

    @♠ Final ♠: Absolutely. Fabulous. Book. Choice.

    Though I'm more partial to I Will Fear No Evil.

    I need Naamah's Kiss though...
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    your timing could not be worse. i literally placed an order for 5 books yesterday.

    just out of curiousity, why a lnk to borders and not some other bookseller (like amazon or B&N)?
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    11/20/09

    @tetracycloide: i wonder what commercial relationship exists between Gawker and Borders?
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    11/20/09

    @tetracycloide: Actually we've partnered with Borders's scifi blog Babel Clash for our book club. It's not a commercial relationship, though. We're just linking to each other.
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    11/20/09

    @Annalee Newitz: [bordersblog.com]

    look at that, a nifty little logo right there. thank you, my curiosity has be satiated. for now...
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    Nothing personal, but I think I'll have to pass on this one. It sounds like a good book, but I'm tired of "coming-of-age" stories right now. Seems like a lot of books, movies and TV shows lately have been coming-of-age stories (Juno, Harry Potter, Twilight, Heroes to some extent, etc.).
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    11/20/09

    @TemporalSword: twilight and heroes are coming-of-age stories? you could have fooled me, all the characters, adults included, seem as childish and self-centered at the end as they did at the beginning.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/20/09

    @TemporalSword: This book is a pretty unusual version of that sort of story. It is most emphatically NOT for kids. I mean, it's a coming-of-age story if you consider The Hobbit to be a coming-of-age story.
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    11/20/09

    @Annalee Newitz: I really didn't consider this a coming of age story. I mean, it has that element, but it is much more complex. And it doesn't really fit into any of the stereotypes that people have tried to fit on it.
    I loved it. And I was extremely skeptical going in.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    For people who have a Sony Reader, it is available at booksonboard.com

    anyone know of a cheaper price?
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    Godsdamnitall, I just got notification of pending arrival of 3 Culture books. Oh well, plenty of time.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    Count me in.

    With any luck I'll have finished Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy by then; I think I'm nearly halfway done with only 'lebnty million pages to go...
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    I really loved Santa Olivia, the world, the heroine, the way she thought. It was incredibly compelling and I can't wait for the meeting to hear what others have to say about it...
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    This will be bought today. Nearly finishing up an older Gaiman book now. I couldn't take part in the last meeting, and I am excited to join this one!
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    11/20/09

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    great! love this book! can't wait for the "book club" when we can discuss it with the author... i have so many questions...
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    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    Awesome post, more like this pretty please!
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    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    God I hated Wanted. For many reasons, though the notion mentioned above about becoming a (nihilistic) ubermensch and subsequently treating everyone else like disposable meat bags for target practice bothered me the most.

    And that last line: "What have you done?" Well, I haven’t dehumanized people around me to the point where I can kill scores of them for my own dubious ends and then imply I’m a hero for it. If that’s what you’re getting at.

    Fuck that movie.
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    11/18/09

    @Supernatural_Canary: Yeah, the actual graphic novel had a much more sensible reason for the last line and the general dehumanization: rather than a "righteous" assassin, the main character is just a selfish supervillain whose power is killing people.

    I've heard the authors did approve the storyline of the movie, so I guess it's their right to mess with the story, but leaving in that last line makes their "hero" still seem like a jerk-off villain.
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    11/18/09

    @kagekiri: Hmmm… that’s interesting. I haven’t read the graphic novel, so it could very well be that the context of that line (and of the character, it appears) didn’t translate very well to the screen.

    I could certainly live with the character being a villain, and now that you point out what he was like in the graphic novel, I wish that’s what they had done in the film. But the fact that the movie made it seem as though he was righteous in his actions repulsed me.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    I watched Knowing maybe two months ago, and I must have blocked it to protect my memory of that crapfest, because I don't remember absolutely anything about the movie. Only telling my mom not to watch it under any circumstances.
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    11/18/09

    @Dirk Anger: I'm surprised you didn't try to kill yourself.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/18/09

    @madara: Apparently I trusted my crap-blocking capabilities to do the trick, as they did. I'll take it into account the next time something makes me want to rip my eyes out

    #calendar
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    11/18/09

    @Dirk Anger: EDIT: Whoops, wrong movie. Knowing is about how Nic Cage is enough of a genius to figure out Earth is going to be destroyed, just in time to do jack shit about it. Also, kids go to an alien planet and there are vague, shitty references to religion.
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    11/18/09

    @The Mikekearn of La Mancha: Ahh I remember now, and Nic stalks the mother of some other kid, they find numbers that are dates of disasters and numbers of deaths... now I remember everything. Damn you!

    #calendar
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