John M. Ford, author of Growing Up Weightless and The Final Reflection and How Much For Just the Planet, is dead. What a shame.
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
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."
Consuela - Sep 25, 2006 5:34:52 am PDT #1252 of 28135
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dana - Sep 25, 2006 5:43:23 am PDT #1253 of 28135
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Aw, man.
dcp - Sep 25, 2006 5:55:39 am PDT #1254 of 28135
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Awww.
Savor the journey, however you're going,
It's been your whole life to get there,
Someday I'll travel, without reservations,
I hope I've two coins for my fare.
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Consuela - Sep 25, 2006 7:13:52 am PDT #1255 of 28135
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Aims - Sep 26, 2006 8:36:46 am PDT #1256 of 28135
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Dear Nora,
Vampires and time travel? Really?
You are lucky I love you so much.
Aimee
Kathy A - Sep 27, 2006 9:01:18 am PDT #1257 of 28135
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of vampires and time travel, I'm almost done reading the first of Nora Roberts' latest paperback trilogy, Morrigan's Cross (the second in the series comes out next Tuesday). It has a witch, a sorceror, a shape-shifter and his cousin (a potential queen, if she pulls an Arthur when she gets home and gets the sword out of the rock), and a vampire who fights his own kind (not because he has a soul, but more because he's bored) and the last addition to the group, a female slayer. Buffy gets name-checked, but as the slayer says, she's not the only one, it's a family gig. The first couple to hookup are the witch and the sorceror, and it looks like the second book will be the slayer and the shape-shifter, leaving the queen (whose mother was killed by a vampire) and the vampire for the final book.
Not bad--worth the $8 I paid when I saw the book at the grocery store last week. For those Roberts fans, like me, I'd rank it in the top third of her books, but mostly because of the vampire lore. NR is a big Buffy fan (she's had a character have sexy dreams about Spike and a vat of dark chocolate), and the Buffyverse's influence is very strong here.
It's only getting 3 1/2 stars at Amazon, and I can see why this may be for non-horror fans. This first book spends most of the time setting everything up, and the romance is a definite second thought.
Aims - Sep 27, 2006 9:02:01 am PDT #1258 of 28135
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That's exactly what book I was talking about.
Kathy A - Sep 27, 2006 9:04:19 am PDT #1259 of 28135
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Duh--here I was, thinking I'd missed a post from the Buffista Nora, and you're talking to the author!
I take it you didn't like it too much, hmm?
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2006 9:06:01 am PDT #1260 of 28135
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
here I was, thinking I'd missed a post from the Buffista Nora, and you're talking to the author!
OH. headTARDIS
Aims - Sep 27, 2006 9:17:40 am PDT #1261 of 28135
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I take it you didn't like it too much, hmm?
I'm still reading and I am enjoying it more than I thought I would. She's done the supernatural/witch/ghost stuff before and I've liked it, but I get kind of skeptical when it comes to vampire romance. But, that said, I really do like it.