The Passage was the featured YA book on the Unshelved webcomic this past Friday as well.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2010 2:53:22 pm PDT #11571 of 28343
brillig
Ginger - Jun 07, 2010 3:04:19 pm PDT #11572 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Have any of y'all read the three Georgia Evans books set in rural wartime England? A friend recommended them and I was charmed by the first one. Nazi vampires! Pixies! (Those are not spoilers unless you have the magical ability to not read any of the cover text.)
Dana - Jun 07, 2010 3:11:50 pm PDT #11573 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You beat me to it, Raq.
while Blood Oath just sounds goofy.
Yeah, it sounded very...familiar.
Volans - Jun 07, 2010 4:22:57 pm PDT #11574 of 28343
move out and draw fire
Like fanfic familiar?
Dana - Jun 07, 2010 4:23:35 pm PDT #11575 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm not sure if it's that as much as vampire tropes. Like, he goes to AA? That's not new.
Volans - Jun 08, 2010 9:03:28 am PDT #11576 of 28343
move out and draw fire
Yeah, and the whole "wears a cross so that the pain reminds him" is in Astro City, and probably other places.
Kate P. - Jun 08, 2010 1:00:57 pm PDT #11577 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
We gave The Passage a big interview in our June issue, and everyone I know who's read it is pretty excited about it. (It's actually being marketed as an adult title, though of course there's a huge amount of crossover with the YA market when it comes to vampires.) I'm hoping to read it, and I'm pretty burned out on vampires these days.
Rayne - Jun 08, 2010 3:02:22 pm PDT #11578 of 28343
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I pre-ordered it on my kindle. The review I read compared it to The Stand, and that hooked me right there. I'm a sucker for an epic post-apocalyptic book! And how cool that it showed up on my kindle shortly after midnight last night!
javachik - Jun 09, 2010 7:24:05 pm PDT #11579 of 28343
Our wings are not tired.
I never knew The Misfits were persona non grata in the Bay Area, for example.
Really? Why?
juliana - Jun 10, 2010 7:55:02 am PDT #11580 of 28343
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Short version: Glenn Danzig was a dick and called the audience names, and then the drummer leapt out into the audience and beat the hell out of an unassuming kid.