Yeah, I got some James Bond books. Worked like a charm.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
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."
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2011 6:50:44 pm PST #13964 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Feb 24, 2011 6:54:39 pm PST #13965 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Okay then! Goth cliche classic, downloading now!
Amy - Feb 24, 2011 6:59:35 pm PST #13966 of 28282
Because books.
I got The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Innocent Traitor (about Lady Jane Grey) and Philip Pullman's The Ruby and the Smoke.
So far I've only listened to some of Innocent Traitor, but I like it more than I thought I would. I'd never tried audiobooks before, because my listening skills need help -- I tend to drift off and lose the plot unless I'm taking notes.
Toddson - Feb 25, 2011 10:16:07 am PST #13967 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For others who like vampires, I read ... Vampire Empire? first in what promises to be a series. Basically, it's intended as kind of a steampunk world where the vampires rose up and slaughtered humans, brought down civilization, humans are relegated to equatorial areas (vampires don't like heat). Has anyone else read it?
Atropa - Feb 25, 2011 10:18:14 am PST #13968 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I hadn't even heard about it, but it sounds interesting. Once I am free to buy new books, I may pick it up.
(My stack of to-be-read is HUGE, and yet I keep retreating to comfort-reading books right now.)
Toddson - Feb 25, 2011 10:19:33 am PST #13969 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jilli, me too. I keep going back to favorites ... and watching my TBR pile grow. This one ... I wasn't really that involved with it - it seemed to promise more than it delivered. I don't know if I'll buy any subsequent books.
Cass - Feb 25, 2011 2:54:14 pm PST #13970 of 28282
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
where the vampires rose up and slaughtered humans, brought down civilization, humans are relegated to equatorial areas (vampires don't like heat). Has anyone else read it?
No, but I like the sound of it. Seriously. I'd live that. If I were a vampire. WHICH I AM NOT.
Laga - Feb 25, 2011 4:50:17 pm PST #13971 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just finished 'Mark Reads Twilight' (well, technically Mark Reads Breaking Dawn but I read them all) and omg so good. It was worth reading the four books just to get Mark's fanfic of the principle characters going to visit Meyer in the last review. Absofuckinglutely brilliant.
Now I'm on to 'Mark Reads Harry Potter' and enjoying the hell out of that. Clearly I prefer fanboy squee to capslock vitriol. I'm also loving that Mark is not as analytical as I am so he missed reading the inscription on the mirror of Erised backwards and he has no idea what could be wrong about a guy named Remus Lupin. It's so fun to anticipate his surprise at the moments of reveal that I didn't get to experience because I saw them coming.
Steph L. - Feb 25, 2011 5:26:12 pm PST #13972 of 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism
He's reading the Hunger Games books, too. He's on Mockingjay right now, towards the middle-end, I think.
DavidS - Feb 25, 2011 5:56:32 pm PST #13973 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
He's on Mockingjay right now, towards the middle-end, I think.
Does shit get real?