You've read the first one, right? Where everyone has to kill each other?
Yeah... That went well.
Mal ,'Trash'
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."
erin_obscure - Sep 27, 2010 7:56:01 pm PDT #12458 of 28326
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
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.
Gudanov - Sep 28, 2010 6:58:16 am PDT #12462 of 28326
Coding and Sleeping
Flash fiction is considered 1,000 words or less (in general).
Laga - Sep 28, 2010 6:58:22 am PDT #12463 of 28326
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I never thought about it before but I love a trilogy.
javachik - Sep 28, 2010 7:00:47 am PDT #12464 of 28326
Our wings are not tired.
Thanks, Gud. I was having nightmares about Adobe Flash.
Gris - Sep 28, 2010 7:01:12 am PDT #12465 of 28326
Hey. New board.
My favorite is a well-paced trilogy. Quartets are acceptable as well. Almost any time a series goes longer than that (no matter how addicted I might get), I expect an unfortunate degradation in quality. (I'm looking at you, George R. R.!)
A series of trilogies or quartets set in the same universe but with different primary characters can be awesome, too. (Tamora Pierce!)
Standalone novels are good, of course, but I prefer incredibly long books like Anathem. I tend to like epic scale, especially in Fantasy/SF (my genres of choice).
Kathy A - Sep 28, 2010 7:30:27 am PDT #12466 of 28326
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I do like well-written (and paced) short stories, but my favorite form is the trilogy.
Funny you mention this, because last night, another blog had as its question of the day "What is your favorite short story?" I'm going to be cutting and pasting a lot of recommendations from that thread, I think. My mentions were "The Yellow Wallpaper," "Shambleau" and "Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore, "With Delicate Mad Hands" by James Tiptree, Jr., and for pure fluff, "Who Am I This Time?" by Vonnegut.
megan walker - Sep 28, 2010 7:35:30 am PDT #12467 of 28326
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
This is me.
My favorite is a well-paced trilogy. Quartets are acceptable as well. Almost any time a series goes longer than that (no matter how addicted I might get), I expect an unfortunate degradation in quality.
Hah. I just wrote on my new blog about how I'm usually disappointed by trilogies: A Trilogy of Trilogies. BTW, that link is not spoilery for Mockingjay.