As someone whose memory often fails, I found this essay comforting: The Plot Escapes Me.
Angel: Lorne, you're— Lorne: Reliable as a cheap fortune cookie? Angel: I was gonna say a guy with good contacts…
'Shells'
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."
megan walker - Sep 26, 2010 6:13:29 am PDT #12452 of 28326
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2010 6:31:51 am PDT #12453 of 28326
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
megan, I came across a book sale on the street yesterday, and I found some old copies of Don Quixote in Spanish and thought of you. They were 30 Euros, or I would have picked one up for kicks.
megan walker - Sep 26, 2010 6:35:03 am PDT #12454 of 28326
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Fun! Despite the pickpocket, I hope you're enjoying yourself.
Amy - Sep 26, 2010 8:44:45 am PDT #12455 of 28326
Because books.
As someone whose memory often fails, I found this essay comforting: The Plot Escapes Me.
Oh god, me too.
javachik - Sep 27, 2010 10:52:06 am PDT #12456 of 28326
Our wings are not tired.
I just want you guys to know that it's all your fault and also to thank you.
I'd never even heard of "Hunger Games" before Pix Tweeted or Facebooked about it so I downloaded the sample to the Kindle before my Philly trip. And then, imagine the horror of reading the sample on the plane in the first few minutes of flight and not being able to download the book right away! So I loaded it as soon as I touched ground, and read it every minute that I wasn't in workshops on Wednesday and Thursday. Steve got to Philly Thursday afternoon, so since I hadn't seen him in three months, I was kind and didn't load "Catching Fire" right away. (Man, the sacrifices I make...)
So yesterday I loaded "Catching Fire" and read it on the plane home. So tonight will be "Mockingjay" and the I can finally go back and read all of your comments! I've been reading the series in a total vaccuum (I don't like knowing anyone else's opinions - not friends nor pros - on anything I read or see before taking it all in myself.)
One thing I'll say, this is the way I watched "The Wire", night after night of DVD marathons. And like then, I am so grateful to not have had to wait the year between stories like y'all did!!
Laga - Sep 27, 2010 3:32:39 pm PDT #12457 of 28326
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I read "Hunger Games" in four hours and I'm waiting for "Catching Fire" through ILL. Is this the most graphically violent YA series ever written? My library has it classified as SF, not YA.
erin_obscure - Sep 27, 2010 7:56:01 pm PDT #12458 of 28326
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
You've read the first one, right? Where everyone has to kill each other?
Laga - Sep 27, 2010 8:30:46 pm PDT #12459 of 28326
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That's "Hunger Games" right?
Gudanov - Sep 28, 2010 6:49:55 am PDT #12460 of 28326
Coding and Sleeping
A question I just thought of. Do you have a preferred fiction length. Flash fiction, short story, novelette, novella, novel, series?
I dislike flash fiction, and I'm not a big fan of short stories either. I like a good self-contained novel. A series that's really well done I like as well, but a lot seem to peter out.
javachik - Sep 28, 2010 6:54:25 am PDT #12461 of 28326
Our wings are not tired.
I don't even know what "flash fiction" is! I think that means I am not qualified to answer.