Steph, thanks for linking to Mark Reads the Hunger Games! I'm enjoying reading them too!!
And Polter-Cow, thanks for the tip that they are all half-price on Amazon. Christmas present for brother purchased!!
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
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."
zuisa - Dec 06, 2010 6:12:49 am PST #13088 of 28273
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
sumi - Dec 06, 2010 7:33:50 am PST #13089 of 28273
Art Crawl!!!
A Swordspoint story - from Ellen Kushner and Tor.com.
Polter-Cow - Dec 06, 2010 12:56:01 pm PST #13090 of 28273
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha, from the latest Mark Reads:
REALLY, COLLINS. Like...WHERE DOES THIS EVEN COME FROM and DOES EVERY CHAPTER END WITH A RIDICULOUS CLIFFHANGER and WHY DON'T PEOPLE WRITE BOOKS THAT ARE EASY TO REVIEW A CHAPTER AT A TIME.
Hee. Collins's chapter endings really are evil, but they never feel particularly cheap or contrived. Because the danger they tease at is real, and it continues to be real in the next chapter.
Polter-Cow - Dec 07, 2010 10:55:53 am PST #13091 of 28273
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm close to halfway through Catching Fire, and eeeeeeee, District 13 !!! I totally kind of forgot about that, but yeah! Maybe THERE ARE NUCLEAR FALLOUT ZOMBIES. I am loving the misinformation campaign. If everything you know is what the Capitol tells you and the Capitol is FULL OF LIES...what do you really know?
That was going to be the most important thing to post about, but then I read the chapter where they read out the Quarter Quell. WHAT THE FUCK. I was assuming that the third book would show us the Hunger Games from Katniss's POV as a mentor, with maybe Prim in the arena this time, but HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME AND TERRIBLE.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2010 11:00:26 am PST #13092 of 28273
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::pets P-C::
Steph L. - Dec 07, 2010 11:27:28 am PST #13093 of 28273
I look more rad than Lutheranism
P-C, to quote Mark (of Mark Reads), SHIT JUST GOT REAL. t edit Again.
Amy - Dec 07, 2010 11:33:42 am PST #13094 of 28273
Because books.
This might be the wrong thread, but does anyone want to recommend good graphic novels? I'm asking for Ben, who's not yet fourteen, but I'm okay with him reading fairly graphic stuff.
He's read The Umbrella Academy, and Batman: The Dark Knight, and he wants to read Watchmen and V For Vendetta. Any others he might like?
Typo Boy - Dec 07, 2010 11:35:19 am PST #13095 of 28273
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Gaiman Sandman series. Really graphic sex and violence on occassion. Lot's of nudity. Some of the best writing in or out of comics/graphic novels.
megan walker - Dec 07, 2010 11:44:48 am PST #13096 of 28273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Amy, you might want to ask in Other Media. Scola for one would probably have some good recs for you.
Amy - Dec 07, 2010 11:54:12 am PST #13097 of 28273
Because books.
Thanks, megan. And Typo.