Oh, I've thrown plenty of books across rooms.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Volans - May 15, 2010 1:28:26 pm PDT #11459 of 28503
move out and draw fire
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2010 1:45:22 pm PDT #11460 of 28503
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Only its status as a library book protected The Atrocity Archives from similar treatment by me recently. My regret over all the years I remained unaware Charles Stross was writing Chthulhu Mythos stories? Vanished by 20 pages in.
Barb - May 15, 2010 1:50:34 pm PDT #11461 of 28503
“Not dead yet!”
I've thrown a fair amount of books. Usually ones I receive for first round of RITA judging.
Kathy A - May 15, 2010 2:22:50 pm PDT #11462 of 28503
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just bought The Atrocity Archives on the recommendation of a bookstore coworker. Is it that bad, Matt?
Jessica - May 15, 2010 2:56:41 pm PDT #11463 of 28503
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just got a Charles Stross book from the library and got 100 pages in before I realized I'd read it before. (The Merchant's War, 4th in a series I enjoy just enough to borrow from the library. But obviously not very memorable book-to-book, since I thought this was a new one until I was almost halfway through!)
meara - May 15, 2010 3:56:16 pm PDT #11464 of 28503
I've been reading that series too, Jessica, and am also unsure where I am in it--I bought the first few, and think I may have read one or two more in the library/bookstore, but am not sure.
Strega - May 15, 2010 9:11:48 pm PDT #11465 of 28503
I liked the Atrocity Archives, but The Jennifer Morgue was much funnier. Of course, I was much more familiar with the tropes in it.
I think I threw Callahan's Key after the third conversation about how gosh-darn perfect Jake is.
Volans - May 16, 2010 6:27:55 am PDT #11466 of 28503
move out and draw fire
I just modded my old Mariners jersey, put "Coleridge" on the back.
If only the A's colors included red, I'd mod that one with "Prynne."
Next up, get a Ravens jersey and add "Poe."
Matt the Bruins fan - May 16, 2010 6:54:53 am PDT #11467 of 28503
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I just bought The Atrocity Archives on the recommendation of a bookstore coworker. Is it that bad, Matt?
I can't say for sure that you won't like it. But the narrator/protagonist came off as such a whiny, entitled know-it-all right from the start that I quickly wished it was actually written by Lovecraft, since that would mean he'd go crazy and be eaten by the end.
Strix - May 16, 2010 9:25:00 am PDT #11468 of 28503
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Guy Gavriel Kay has a new book out. I read it, it was ok. But I really haven't liked anything he's done since "Lions of Al-Rassan." Or, wait, did the Sarantium books come out after that? I liked those, too.
I though "Ysabel" was eminently forgettable.