Which table am I supposed to sit at?

[j_cheney]

In response to the HS metaphor going around just now, I went and read this post and laughed myself silly.

My big problem is....where am I supposed to sit, exactly?

A few people have suggested I should go sit with the SteamPunk kids, due to the time period in which I set a lot of my work, but really! I don't have a black leather corset...and if I did, I wouldn't wear it to school. I'll never fit in! Hmmmph!

Perhaps over with the history geeks? Novik might be nice to talk to...
The romance table? Bujold and Asaro are pretty cool, though, and probably don't want to talk to an associate HS student like me....

Where did Martha Wells go sit? Caroline Stevermer? They're nice. Anyone seen Teresa Edgerton? Susan Dexter? Are they at school here?

::still wandering around::

Comments

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read that post and loffed a little, and then decided that if Jay is a newcomer then I am the kid being homeschooled...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Man, me too....
It's scary if he and matociquala feel that way.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I'm all for cutting class, myself.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then we don't get stars!

[jess-ka.livejournal.com]

I dropped out to travel.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Foreign Exchange Program?

[jess-ka.livejournal.com]

Heh. More like alternative cultures exchange program.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

;o)

[janni.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that I want to go sit at the children's table, but I see that's been covered. :-) (But they wouldn't be in line, they'd be over dipping their french fries in ketchup and complaining they can't eat the pizza because it has stuff on it.)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Ick! Stuff!

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I'd probably be with the steam punkers. I mean, my hero does chase after the lich in a steam engine....

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I have trains...and tin-types (no daguerrotypes, of course) and newspapers....oh yeah, guns and swords in the same room.

::whispers:: can't really be fantasy then...

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

Wow! You are still stinging from that one I see ^_^

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

It's not one...I've heard it many times, despite the fact that it doesn't make sense at all...

[tlmorganfield.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely be planted at the historical table, complaining loudly about having to take mideval history classes, and writing long treatises on Mesoamerican mythology and history. I might occassionally wander over to the high fantasy table and look around, but then decide I don't really belong there, since my stuff features no horses or steel swords.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but you and aliettebd will just have to take those classes via coorespondence at the local junior college...so stop bugging the principal!

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I'm still over in Kindergarten, coloring in pretty word-pictures.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Ri-ight...

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Still mastering the alphabet?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

No comment...

Martin

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite part of this was the rip on George R.R. Martin. I have never been more disappointed in an author than Mr. Martin with 'A feast for Crows'. That book should have been called 'Thief of your $30'. Even I have never seen an author actually apologize for the book you just read at the end of his own text! He should have done more than apologize... oh, actually HE DID! He lied, bold-faced, in saying that he decided to break his huge tome into two volumes instead of one huge one so that he could include more for us in the next book which was coming out right after the crap he just decieved us into reading after an already miserable three year wait. Hmmmm, and that was TWO FREAKING YEARS AGO! I will never, EVER, read Martin again, period! Sorry, but just the mention of his name gets me all kinds of worked up. NOTE: Do not claim a book to be part of an ongoing series if it has nothing to do with your main characters!

Re: Martin

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

Re: Martin

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

About six months before it came out, I attended a reading, and the scene he read from was *not* in the book, so it must be in the mythical second half.

And I really didn't feel he'd "told all of" any of the characters' stories, since at least Arya and Sansa were left hanging. I don't object to characters not getting to live happily ever after, but I like a sentence or two to tell me we're actually done with their story. So yes, I laughed at he GRRM comment.

Re: Martin

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

I am glad someone else out there felt kind of like I did. I think you have to love Arya, but she was only in six parts I think, and although Sansa is a family member, does anyone really care that much about her? He really picked poorly when giving us characters to read. If you don't have Dani or John in the book, then it isn't Fire and Ice, period.

Re: Martin

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I agee. I care for Arya, but many of his characters, I could live without. Sansa's main problem is that we keep waiting for her to get mad and take control of her stiuation -- or at least attempt to -- she hasn't done a blessed thing yet. And his apparent excuse that she's a sheltered little girl doesn't work, since he repeatedly says all the Starks we raused to be a bit tough. And he seems to have completely forgotten about the littlest Stark (Was his name Roddy? After two whole books without him, I can't remember.)

And franky, the only adult characters I care about are Tyrion (though I do wish at least he Starks would realize he's on their side -- or wanted to be) Baelish and Littlefinger. (Or are they the same person? It's been so long...)

Perhaps he should have toned down the gore and incest and written it as YA?