But are you enjoying it?
Right. Piano. Because that's what we used to kill that big demon that one time. No, wait. That was a rocket launcher.
Xander ,'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."
sumi - Mar 03, 2011 11:54:01 am PST #13999 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 11:55:43 am PST #14000 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
yes?
I feel like I've read the first few chapters before, though.
I'm a big fake. I know it.
Atropa - Mar 03, 2011 12:10:35 pm PST #14001 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sox, if it makes you feel better, I also haven't read it, and don't really have plans to.
hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 12:12:37 pm PST #14002 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
Sadly, and I know I will regret posting this, I saw the really good trailer photos, with the two blond siblings, and thought "what's with the Flowers in the Attic kids on my fantasy fic?" and had to dive back in.
hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 2:23:41 pm PST #14003 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
On the flip side, and perhaps to redeem myself just a little, I just read the house copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to HKF, starting with the entirety of the cover. She asked what the six-digit number was in the top left corner. I believe it's the ISBN for a book published in 1976. She also commented that no one had dog eared any pages, in all the book's long yellowing life. I count that as a win.
DavidS - Mar 03, 2011 3:09:23 pm PST #14004 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Remainder Report: Lots of cool titles on the remainder table at Pegasus Books. They had Bolano's 2066 in TPB for only $9. Every time I read the beginning I started to get sucked in so I've been eager to get it.
They had the oversize and elaborate Taschen Circus set (1870-1955) for only $70. I think it originally went for closer to $300. It has huge foldout reproductions of vintage posters and tons of photos.
They also had the complete New Yorker Cartoons book, with the accompanying two CDs of every cartoon ever published in the New Yorker. Only $30, and worth it just for your iPad.
sumi - Mar 04, 2011 3:32:22 am PST #14005 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
A Dance with Dragons currently #4 on Amazon's Top 100 books thanks to preorders.
(#2 is a pop-up book about Harry Potter.)
Consuela - Mar 04, 2011 11:06:26 am PST #14006 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sox, I read the first few and then just stopped. Too long between updates, too much death, too grim overall. Plus the incest. I might watch the show, for the awesome cast.
hippocampus - Mar 04, 2011 12:02:32 pm PST #14007 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
Good to know, both Connie & Jilli
le nubian - Mar 04, 2011 12:47:29 pm PST #14008 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy. I mainlined the whole thing in the course of about 4 days. I found the ending appropriate but depressing. I think I would have felt better about the ending if we had had a scene with Katniss and Peeta coming together again, instead of reading about it in an epilogue. I was really messed up over what was done to Peeta. It is probably wrong to feel this way, but in some ways I feel like that was one of the worst things done in the books.
I would have preferred more closure in some areas and I agree with discussion above that there needed to be a bit more description from Katniss regarding her final dramatic act. I think that her voting for another round of Hunger Games coupled with her assassination of Coin seem like contradictory acts to me. Why vote for it when it wouldn't have made a difference.
How are they going to film this thing? I bet they will change the ending.