There is crack on the pages, though. Because I liked book one when I read it, yet this shit is absolutely true, and, because I've read a book before, I spent the entire second and a great deal of the third one going "Wait...I've read this before.(Like last week when you finished the other one, genius) but I was blinded by the WMD on the pages. But i also got there just ahead of much of the hype machine so I skimmed looking for dirty bits and was thwarted.(I used that in Cupid fanfic so it was worth it.) The fourth one is still a top contender for Grossest Thing I've Ever Tried to Read(and you know what I usually read, but I totally had that Seven, "Life is Too Short For Me To Know This Much About Your Issues" feeling about it, despite the blood not being spilled in anger or the negligible body count. I can't explain it, but I'm a tough reader with lots of books under my mental belt, and I still felt...kind of violated by that. The thought of Meyer selling that to bright-eyed fangirls who haven't been metaphor-wrangling as long as I have really pissed me off at the time, and I guess I'm still not over it. That was the closest I've come in a long time to deciding that a work of fiction was Not Okay, and I'm fucked up enough to be both a feminist and an Ellroy fan, but that sick little panty-sniffer is not trying to take YA by storm is he?
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
In the way every dark cloud having a sparkly lining, if Meyer hadn't written her craptastic books we'd never have gotten these:
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Post-apoc retelling of Persuasion sold yesterday. It's by Killer Unicorn Girl.
Kill. Me. Now.
sigh ... I got a coupon from Barnes & Noble in email - the subject line promised 40% off. So I eagerly opened the message, had to scroll past all kinds of stuff, and found ut that the coupon WAS for 40% off ... on anything from their Twilight Collection.
Okay, I've finished Justine Larbalestier's Liar. Anyone else read it?
I don't know what to think.
Hm, that sounds like something I'd like. I heart unreliable narrators.
Just curious...Anybody a fan of Katherine Anne Porter?
Hm, that sounds like something I'd like. I heart unreliable narrators.
It's unreliable upon unreliable. It starts out with the narrator saying that she's a liar, but she wants to tell the truth now, no really. So everything she says is a potential lie. It makes my head hurt.
I've been meaning to pick it up, Steph, because I read a few different blogs about the cover controversy. Haven't yet, though.
Disappointing? Not good?
It starts out with the narrator saying that she's a liar, but she wants to tell the truth now, no really. So everything she says is a potential lie. It makes my head hurt.
In a good way?
I've been wanting to read Bad Monkeys for a while, which is similar, I think.