Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


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."


Ginger - Jun 07, 2010 3:04:19 pm PDT #11572 of 28769
"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 28769
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

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 28769
move out and draw fire

Like fanfic familiar?


Dana - Jun 07, 2010 4:23:35 pm PDT #11575 of 28769
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
"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 28769
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 28769
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.


javachik - Jun 10, 2010 8:25:18 am PDT #11581 of 28769
Our wings are not tired.

Whoa! That would be a way to become persona non grata.