:whimper:
I told myself to wait until the next con to buy Wintersmith. That's just under three weeks away. sigh...
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
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."
Sheryl - Oct 01, 2006 5:03:21 am PDT #1285 of 28143
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2006 8:11:35 am PDT #1286 of 28143
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Jilli, I cannot recommend The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Even as a huge comics fan, I can't recommend it. "Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.
Stoner & Spaz, by Ron Koertge, did the trope of geeky-outsider-boy-meets-edgy-rebellious-girl MUCH better.
And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.
Atropa - Oct 01, 2006 9:20:52 am PDT #1287 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
"Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.
Gnnnng. Okay then, I'll give it a miss.
beth b - Oct 01, 2006 4:30:35 pm PDT #1288 of 28143
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Stoner & Spaz was much better than I expected it to be. well done.
lisah - Oct 02, 2006 4:46:46 am PDT #1289 of 28143
Punishingly Intricate
And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.
I'm enjoying King Dork pretty well so far. But I'm only 100 or so pages in.
DawnK - Oct 02, 2006 6:08:58 am PDT #1290 of 28143
giraffe mode
King Dork
I enjoyed it. Not my favorite of all time but very enjoyable.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2006 11:57:47 am PDT #1291 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have an odd couple of questions: has anyone read the Cirque du Freak YA series? It looks like the sort of YA vampire novel thing I enjoy, and I picked up the first book at Half Price Books … only to discover that each chapter header has a large illustration of a tarantula. And the bit of the introduction I skimmed was all about how the main character luuuurves spiders, and his happiest birthday was when his parents gave him a pet tarantula.
So, my big question is how spider-riffic is this book and/or series? I am mostly okay with short written things about spiders, but lots of description about how they move, or look, or lots of scenes with them will make me very uncomfortable. (I mean, I adore Caitlin R. Kiernan’s writing, but I don’t have any plans to re-read Silk or A Murder of Angels anytime soon, thanks to all the spider scenes.)
Anyone?
Amy - Oct 02, 2006 11:58:59 am PDT #1292 of 28143
Because books.
Jilli, Jake has read all of them and adores them. He's not home until dinner, but I'll ask him how spider-riffic the books are.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2006 12:01:09 pm PDT #1293 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, thank you AmyLiz! That would be a big help.
Amy - Oct 02, 2006 1:42:41 pm PDT #1294 of 28143
Because books.
Jilli, according to Jake the spider figures kind of prominently in the first few books because the boy can communicate with it. He said the author makes the spider seem "kind of superior" but there's no "icky" stuff. (Remember, this is fifteen-year-old-speak.) He does say the spider is given a personality, but I don't know if that makes it better or worse. He does describe the spider from time to time, as well, and for whatever reason his descriptions made Jake picture it really big.
Hope that helps. I could page through the first book tonight if you want, since I seem to be up for doing anything that is not writing the book that's due very, very soon.