There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
software
high-speed pizza delivery
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
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."
Ginger - Dec 21, 2010 1:08:16 pm PST #13312 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
zuisa - Dec 21, 2010 1:15:11 pm PST #13313 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I loved all the pizza delivery stuff. Just the idea of having to go through four year of university with the Mafia to learn to be a pizza deliverer is so amusing.
I found most of the book really amusing, actually. I also love ancient middle eastern mythology, and so I was pleasantly surprised when Sumerian mythology popped up. And everybody was just so badass.
javachik - Dec 21, 2010 2:36:23 pm PST #13314 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
Also, if you want to convert stuff easily to mobi format (from epub, lit, pdf, etc) download a program called Calibre. Then just copy files to your kindle!
Rayne, I haven't tried this yet, but thanks for the info.
Can someone please tell Ms. Rowlings that I FINALLY have enough downtime that I can read Harry Potter and that she needs to authorize it for e-readers?? I can't lug around those books. I even actually have a sad old lady reason now - chronic bursitis in my rotator cuff. :(
Consuela - Dec 21, 2010 4:49:51 pm PST #13315 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
HP isn't available for the Kindle? That's ridonkulous.
javachik - Dec 21, 2010 5:04:37 pm PST #13316 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
IKNOWRIGHT?!
Rayne - Dec 21, 2010 5:58:56 pm PST #13317 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
HP isn't available in any ebook format officially (you can find unauthorized versions if you look though). JK Rowling has been against them, but it sounds like she's rethinking it. (Hmmm.... more money, yes please!)
That's when ebooks start making me cranky. When I consider buying ebooks that I already own in actual book format.
javachik - Dec 21, 2010 6:00:36 pm PST #13318 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
I am a big fan of legal copies of everything. I can wait. I've already waited years.
Rayne - Dec 21, 2010 6:04:06 pm PST #13319 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I'm also a big fan of legal copies. I just wish there were digital copies of books available when you buy a book. Kind of like when you buy a Blu Ray these days. You get a Blu Ray, sometimes a DVD and a digital copy. It would be cool if books could do the same things. Buy the books, get a free ebook version.
Consuela - Dec 21, 2010 6:28:18 pm PST #13320 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Buy the books, get a free ebook version.
that's what Baen did with the latest Bujold: the book came with a CD loaded with RTF versions of nearly every Vorkosigan book in the franchise.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 11:10:36 pm PST #13321 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pissed because I wanted to reread Dirk Gently and I lost my copy in Katrina. No ebook! I have the Hitchhikers on paper already, thank you. No use to me digitally. I bought the Liff thingy, out of sentiment, but I really wanted Dirk.
I have to decide what books to buy before I go on vacation. Will I finish The Game of Thrones? Probably. Should get the second one. Neuromancer and Snow Crash piqued my interest, and maybe I should see what Gaiman I don't have on paper.