quixoticSo let's play the blurb game! You've been asked to blurb an existing book in a way that is honest, accurate, and true to your feelings on the text. Most of these will probably not be used for publication, because when I'm being honest, accurate, and true, there's a lot of swearing.
I'll start:
"This book is like a cozy blanket for my soul. A cozy blanket full of evil clowns and profanity. IT is the most comforting thing I have ever read." —Stephen King's IT.
"Matthew Swift's London crackles with electric fire, neon heartbreak, and all the power and sideways logic of urban sorcery. Kate Griffin is at the top of her game, and she just keeps getting better." —Kate Griffin's Neon Court.
"FUCK YEAH, SEAKING." —Peter Clines's Ex-Heroes.
"It takes a truly great story, and a truly great writer, to make a book about rabbits more true to the human condition than most books about humanity." —Richard Adams's Watership Down.
"Lucy Snyder attacks the page with the raw, manic intensity of an early Sam Raimi. Jessie Shimmer is urban fantasy's answer to Ash from The Evil Dead: ballsy, profane, and too much fun to put down." —Lucy Snyder's Spellbent.
"Hey, look! It's a retelling of 'Tam Lin' that makes me root for Janet! That never happens!" —Pamela Dean's Tam Lin.
"You need to meet the people in this book. They have things to tell you." —Janet Kagan's Hellspark.
"The true power of fairy tale archetypes is the way they let us tell the stories that need to be told while framing them in a veil of the familiar. Jim Hines has created a Cinderella with a future, a Sleeping Beauty with a past, and a Snow White present in more than merely apples. These books are all the stronger for not being 'serious' fiction; by the time you realize that you're learning, it's too late. You've been taught." —Jim Hines's The Stepsister Scheme.
Now it's your turn! BLURB THE WORLD!
March 26 2011, 12:04:28 UTC 6 years ago
"Captures the lure of the alien-yet-familiar and the delight of creating your own world. This almost makes me want to go out and play an MMORPG, and I hate those things." —Diane Duane's Omnitopia Dawn
"If your kids develop magical powers and you want them to behave ethically, make them read this book. Make them read this whole series. It's fun! It's awesome! If it doesn't make you break down sobbing at least once, yeah, right then with the moon, you might not be human. I re-read it every time my brain fucks up, and it makes me all better." —Diane Duane's So You Want To Be a Wizard & series.
"Supposing one day you created a universe. By accident. And you had to teach the beings who inhabited that universe how to rule it wisely and well. If you're Captain Kirk or the crew of the starship Enterprise, it's all in a day's work." —Diane Duane's The Wounded Sky
"An unflinching look at the history that Vulcans would rather not talk about. If you read one book besides Purpose as Prime Motivator, read this." —Diane Duane's Spock's World
"Every teenager who's too smart for their own good needs to read this right now. I re-read it every time my brain fucks up, and it makes me all better. My copy is bound in duct tape because the cover fell off, and I carried it with me out of a tsunami warning zone." —C.J. Cherryh's Cyteen
"FUCK YEAH CYBERPUNK. WHERE THE HELL ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO SEE A BIRACIAL KATANA-WIELDING HACKER WORKING FOR THE MOB DELIVERING PIZZA AND HELPING HIS LADY FRIEND SAVE THE WORLD'S BRAINS FROM GETTING HACKED ALL TO HELL?" —Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
"If you read one book ever about a fictional society with a severe shortage of water, read this one. If you read one book ever about teenage angst, read this one. I re-read it every time my brain fucks up, and it makes me all better." —John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless
"Haters gotta hate. Irwins gotta poke things with sticks. Zombies gotta eat brains. Bloggers gotta blog." —Mira Grant's FEED
"How to fuck up your career completely and irrevocably in three easy steps, by Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, aged twenty-nine-and-three-quarters." —Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory
March 28 2011, 21:03:45 UTC 6 years ago