I'm going to stop by B&N on the way home, and this reminded me that, in addition to getting the Simon's Cat and George Lucas's Blockbusting books, I'm also going to pick up the latest of the Robin D. Owens Heart romance series. They're not vampires, but they are SF/paranormal (everyone on the planet has mental telepathy to a degree, especially with their familiar pets, mostly cats--the first in the series, Heart Choice, has one of my favorite literary cats).
Bunnies frighten me.
Anya ,'Help'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kathy A - Jan 11, 2010 1:23:25 pm PST #10755 of 28368
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Anne W. - Jan 11, 2010 2:40:42 pm PST #10756 of 28368
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I have a feeling steampunk is going to go mainstream in a big way this decade. So, I can see stories about automata, mad scientists, etc. becoming more and more popular.
Strix - Jan 11, 2010 3:07:51 pm PST #10757 of 28368
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Golems: They're the New Vampire!
Atropa - Jan 11, 2010 3:23:00 pm PST #10758 of 28368
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have a feeling steampunk is going to go mainstream in a big way this decade.
If it does, I hope that Steampunk Tales sees an upswing in sales/readers. That would be great.
beth b - Jan 11, 2010 3:24:50 pm PST #10759 of 28368
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
didn't realizes you read so much vampire/zombie lit, David.
World War Z was one of the few zombie novels I actually finished
DavidS - Jan 11, 2010 3:42:09 pm PST #10760 of 28368
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
didn't realizes you read so much vampire/zombie lit, David.
I don't. I just noticed the incursion on genres like romance and YA, and ubiquity of the Twilight stuff, and True Blood and Being Human and Daybreakers and it just feels like a lot.
It's not that it's impinging on my reading habits (currently: Angela Carter, Robertson Davies) so much as my read on the cultural zeitgeist.
Amy - Jan 11, 2010 4:35:36 pm PST #10761 of 28368
Because books.
I still have to reach Amy's finished zombie book, which I know is guaranteed awesome.
Fingers crossed.
Zombies still seem fresh to me, mostly because over the last few years I've kept up with adult books/romance, where zombies haven't really made a mark. And I haven't read any of the Pride and Prejudice-type mashups, either.
Strega - Jan 11, 2010 4:37:19 pm PST #10762 of 28368
Ooo, I read Fantomas last year (I think?) and it was bananas and fantastic. Someone call Chris Nolan and tell him to get on that.
Consuela - Jan 11, 2010 4:51:06 pm PST #10763 of 28368
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Funny, I thought I was over vampires like three or four years ago, and that the market was saturated then. Little did I know!
I'm guessing were-everything is the next big thing, because you can have sex with them, and people know what they are.
Or angels/demons, vis. that new movie coming out.
Steph L. - Jan 12, 2010 4:25:59 am PST #10764 of 28368
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just finished The Zombie Survival Guide, which was good, but I just started World War Z, and it's already ten times better in the first ten pages.
Dude, did you read Breathers yet? It is SO fucked up. I liked it a LOT.
One of the best books I read last year was a zombie book: The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
I read that last year, and I liked it quite a bit (except for it reminding me a lot of that M. Night Shamalayan movie whose title I can't remember). However -- and I get that this is authorial preference -- there were some aspects that I would have preferred to see fleshed out versus hitting the romance angle so hard.
I have a feeling steampunk is going to go mainstream in a big way this decade.
Leviathan is pretty kick-ass. However, when I started it, I didn't realize it was the first of 3, and the second won't be out until October 2010, and I CAN'T WAIT DAMN IT.
Seriously, though, it would be worth reading just for the illustrations alone, but the story is pretty excellent, too.