Comments on: Genre conquers Hollywood http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/291 Scientific Romances and Other Curiosities from the Antipodes Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Trowzers http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/291/comment-page-1#comment-36726 Trowzers Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:37:52 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/291#comment-36726 I've just been to the Lifeline Book Fest - now there's a place that will open your eyes to different genres! I usually read from a wide variety of genres (Christmas reading was Dasheill Hammett "The Maltest Falcon", Philip D. Dick "The Cosmic Puppets" and "Sense and Sensibility"!) but this time I managed to come home with a Western, some Erotica, and a Fabio romance novel (just because the cover picture made me laugh!) among the usual pile of Crime, SF, Classics and a biography or two. Most were only a few dollars or less, so why not try something a little out there? At worst, you'll have a giggle. It runs at the Brisbane Convention Centre until next Sunday - I highly recommend you stop by if you can! I’ve just been to the Lifeline Book Fest – now there’s a place that will open your eyes to different genres! I usually read from a wide variety of genres (Christmas reading was Dasheill Hammett “The Maltest Falcon”, Philip D. Dick “The Cosmic Puppets” and “Sense and Sensibility”!) but this time I managed to come home with a Western, some Erotica, and a Fabio romance novel (just because the cover picture made me laugh!) among the usual pile of Crime, SF, Classics and a biography or two. Most were only a few dollars or less, so why not try something a little out there? At worst, you’ll have a giggle.

It runs at the Brisbane Convention Centre until next Sunday – I highly recommend you stop by if you can!

]]> By: seanwilliams http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/291/comment-page-1#comment-32763 seanwilliams Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:14:31 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/291#comment-32763 Hear hear, Chris. I try to open at least one book I expect to hate a year, and sometimes I am pleasantly surprised. Often enough to prove that relying on expectations alone is a hopeless way of picking books. I'm more often disappointed by books I've been looking forward to than confirmed in my prejudices by books I couldn't care less about. Hear hear, Chris. I try to open at least one book I expect to hate a year, and sometimes I am pleasantly surprised. Often enough to prove that relying on expectations alone is a hopeless way of picking books. I’m more often disappointed by books I’ve been looking forward to than confirmed in my prejudices by books I couldn’t care less about.

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