Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
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.
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.
::pets P-C::
P-C, to quote Mark (of Mark Reads), SHIT JUST GOT REAL. t edit Again.
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?
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.
Amy, you might want to ask in Other Media. Scola for one would probably have some good recs for you.
Thanks, megan. And Typo.
I just finished Runaways, which isn't Important or Literature, but is fun and a good read.
Books of Magic, Amy. They're kinda Harry Potterish, but cooler. I'm not sure of the target range of Fables and Y: The Last Man, but they're also good. If he can read Watchmen, I think he can read those.
And...Maus?