Sparkling is optional.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
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."
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2010 6:59:24 am PST #13200 of 28278
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Consuela - Dec 10, 2010 7:37:31 am PST #13201 of 28278
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My dream: to one day inspire that kind of impassioned reaction
I know, Barb. I have to admit that I am simultaneously envious and kind of annoyed, because for all the Collins has all these ideas and this fantastic narrative drive, I find her prose kind of clunky and her world-building kind of crappy. But I wish to jebuslug I knew how to write something that people would just not put down.
Argh.
Oh BTW, I got Stars and it looks lovely! I'm going to give it to my niece when she gets home from college tomorrow, she'll be thrilled (she loved your first two books).
Barb - Dec 10, 2010 7:48:48 am PST #13202 of 28278
“Not dead yet!”
I have to admit that I am simultaneously envious and kind of annoyed,
Yeah, exactly. I'll admit, too, I'm feeling overly sensitive because I also received my first DNF review yesterday, although to the reader's credit, she said it was more because it wasn't her kind of book and she would have known that had she read the back cover (?!?) and at least she didn't ding me with a single star review or anything.
Still, rational as one can be about these things, it still stings.
But, on the upside, yay for buying Stars and I hope your niece likes it as much as the first two!
Amy - Dec 10, 2010 7:55:31 am PST #13203 of 28278
Because books.
What is a DNF review?
Jesse - Dec 10, 2010 7:56:10 am PST #13204 of 28278
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But I wish to jebuslug I knew how to write something that people would just not put down.
End each chapter on OMGWTF, for one thing! That always pisses me off, because it means I can never go to bed.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2010 7:59:15 am PST #13205 of 28278
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hunger Games was unparalleled for me in my recent reading. I haven't had anything that hard to put down for a while. Easy to read, emotionally affecting, and I read Mockingjay on a bad few days and wept like a baby. I'm so impressed. Not in a Harry Potter-brings-reading-to-the-masses way. She just broke through my jaded cynicism and hooked me right in.
Which is a talent I value more than worldbuilding, honestly, although I always prefer them to go hand in hand.
Liese S. - Dec 10, 2010 8:00:58 am PST #13206 of 28278
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Did not finish, I'm guessing?
Barb - Dec 10, 2010 8:01:38 am PST #13207 of 28278
“Not dead yet!”
What is a DNF review?
Did Not Finish.
Reader said the book bored her to death.
Amy - Dec 10, 2010 8:02:20 am PST #13208 of 28278
Because books.
Ah. I'd never heard that.
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2010 8:05:35 am PST #13209 of 28278
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Easy to read
I think this is a big thing. It reads very easily, which makes it easy to get into, and then once you're into it, fuck, you can't get out because OMGWTF.
her world-building kind of crappy
I don't have problems with her general dystopian world-building, but I still don't understand how they design/build/control these arenas.