I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'


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."


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 8:03:08 am PDT #12640 of 28295
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sweet Valley High grownup sequel cover released.


Steph L. - Oct 20, 2010 11:00:04 am PDT #12641 of 28295
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Sweet Valley High grownup sequel cover released.

Oh god, I kind of want to read that.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:21:12 am PDT #12642 of 28295
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They're estranged! The horror!


Amy - Oct 20, 2010 11:23:24 am PDT #12643 of 28295
Because books.

I feel so out of the loopy that I never read Sweet Valley books. I did audition to write one once, though.


Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:24:20 am PDT #12644 of 28295
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I never read the Sweet Valley books. I think I'm too old or they were too trendy.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:28:01 am PDT #12645 of 28295
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You're not much older than me, Laga? I was probably a bit older than the target audience (which I think was younger than the twins) when I started them, and I seem to recall we're about the same age.

Not that I bought them or shit. Let's be clear. It was other people's copies I was reading.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2010 11:29:12 am PDT #12646 of 28295
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm 36, and my best friend read a ton of them in 7th-8th grade, but I refused.


Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:30:55 am PDT #12647 of 28295
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'll be 42 in January. Holy crap.


Amy - Oct 20, 2010 11:31:03 am PDT #12648 of 28295
Because books.

A lot of girl readers, especially, read *up* pretty quickly, so by the time I was in seventh grade I was reading mostly Stephen King and other adult authors. I'm also 43, though, so I think was too old when those came out.

For series, I remember reading the Beany Malone books from the library, though. And Nancy Drew, of course.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2010 11:32:41 am PDT #12649 of 28295
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was reading Agatha Christie and books with sex in them.