Anything that gets anyone to read more is a good thing, which is why I hate when I hear parents in a bookstore telling their kids they can only read "good books", they should be working with their kid's interests, not against them.
Say! look at you! You look just like me! We're very pretty.
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
sj - Jan 31, 2011 1:42:55 pm PST #13751 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj - Jan 31, 2011 1:50:12 pm PST #13752 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have never read any Gabaldon, but I may have to look into downloading one to my kindle. Is Outlander the first book in the series?
Has anyone read Masques or Wolfsbane by Patricia Briggs? Masques is her first published book that has recently been reprinted after being out of print for a while and Wolfsbane is the sequel that was just published for the first time. I recently finished the first and I am currently reading the second. I love them. I think I like Aralorn (the main character) as much as Mercy.
Barb - Jan 31, 2011 1:52:35 pm PST #13753 of 28282
“Not dead yet!”
For all my scorn for the Twilight series, I have told Abby if she's interested in reading it, I will be more than happy to get her the books or take her to the library. So far, she's not shown any interest in it—mostly because the girls at her school who've read it and rave over it, rattle on at length about Team Jacob versus Team Edward, ad nauseum, and it drives her batty. She also said that Bella sounds like (in her words) a total drip.
She has read Alyxandra Harvey's Drake Chronicles and loves them, so she's definitely not anti-vampire.
Consuela - Jan 31, 2011 1:52:57 pm PST #13754 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Outlander is the first one.
I admit that, as much as I enjoyed the first one, I got bored by book 3 (that's the one where they go to America?) and gave up entirely when the boyfriend was mistaken for a rapist and Jamie arranged for him to be captured by Indians for a variety of reasons. Too much authorial puppetry for me.
Also, and I know this is blasphemy, but like J.D. Robb's stuff, there was too much sex. I got bored and started skimming.
Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2011 2:00:07 pm PST #13755 of 28282
brillig
All I know of Gabaldon is that she loathes fanficcers and based Jaime on a Doctor Who companion.
Laga - Jan 31, 2011 2:30:04 pm PST #13756 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
She also said that Bella sounds like (in her words) a total drip.
smart girl.
Barb - Jan 31, 2011 2:34:02 pm PST #13757 of 28282
“Not dead yet!”
All I know of Gabaldon is that she loathes fanficcers and based Jaime on a Doctor Who companion.
Well, to be fair, if I had a fanficcer come up to me at a signing, tell me what I'd done wrong in my work and that their work, based on my creation was better and that they'd fixed the "mistakes," I probably wouldn't be too predisposed to care for them either.
(And this has happened to her more than once. Along with the fanficcers who tell her they fixed her work and could she introduce them to her agent and/or publisher.)
flea - Jan 31, 2011 2:44:55 pm PST #13758 of 28282
information libertarian
I have to say I was completely immune to alleged addictiveness of Twilight. I forced myself to read the first 75 pages (I was assigned it for book club at work) and gave up. I hate first-person narrators, and first-person annoyingly drippy teenaged girl narrators, especially.
Anne W. - Jan 31, 2011 2:56:31 pm PST #13759 of 28282
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I have to say I was completely immune to alleged addictiveness of Twilight. I forced myself to read the first 75 pages
You made it 25 pages further than I did, and I gave it two tries. I just couldn't get into it.
Strix - Jan 31, 2011 2:58:29 pm PST #13760 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
A book club at work picked Twilight?! Are you fucking SERIOUS?!
My English teacher heart just cracked a little.