Yeah this is very different.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'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."
Typo Boy - Aug 12, 2010 8:50:06 pm PDT #11878 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Consuela - Aug 12, 2010 8:54:53 pm PDT #11879 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys this week. It's a very entertaining read, rather meta (narrative within narrative), deals with questions of good and evil and the proper means of managing them. Not entirely sure I liked it, but I wanted to keep reading.
Ruff is a really interesting writer: everything he writes is entirely different than everything else. I have to respect that, even though it makes it difficult to know whether you'll like the next thing he comes out with.
Typo Boy - Aug 12, 2010 8:59:07 pm PDT #11880 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Actually one thing love about Brust many styles uses one he find suits particular story or series.
beth b - Aug 12, 2010 9:05:14 pm PDT #11881 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I liked Bad monkeys
happy green eggs and ham day
Polter-Cow - Aug 12, 2010 9:19:07 pm PDT #11882 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I read Bad Monkeys a few months ago and found it very entertaining as well. I definitely liked it. It's one of the most page-turning books I've ever read.
Consuela - Aug 13, 2010 7:30:17 am PDT #11883 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yup, I would agree it was very page-turning, even when I was going o_0 at Jane's choices.
Kat - Aug 13, 2010 7:53:13 am PDT #11884 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I read Little Bee yesterday and thought it was AMAZING. Anyone else read it?
Laga - Aug 14, 2010 10:35:07 am PDT #11885 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I finished Cowboy Feng iffy about the ending. I have a helf-baked theory that Brust started the book without an ending in mind and when he got to that point he just couldn't think of anything else. But I did enjoy the ride.
Pix - Aug 14, 2010 3:59:56 pm PDT #11886 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
I stayed up until 4am to finish the last of the Larsson books. I liked the first one all right, but DAMN the second two were good!
Amy - Aug 14, 2010 4:06:47 pm PDT #11887 of 28343
Because books.
I liked the first one all right, but DAMN the second two were good!
It's good to keep hearing that, because I keep trying to get into the first one and it's not working that well. Right now I'm simply too distracted, but I know there's a payoff, so.