Start with the first one ("Open and Shut")and read in order, as they each definitely build on the previous book.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2011 8:29:45 am PST #14074 of 28388
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 8:33:19 am PST #14075 of 28388
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, I downloaded a sample.
I need to leave the book I just started reading anyway because I don't like it.
sumi - Mar 11, 2011 11:36:29 am PST #14076 of 28388
Art Crawl!!!
Harper Collins blurb for A Dance with Dragons.
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2011 9:33:10 pm PST #14077 of 28388
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Allow me some vicarious excitement.
Late Eclipses is #32, making my friend Seanan McGuire officially a New York Times bestselling author!
le nubian - Mar 13, 2011 6:52:27 am PDT #14078 of 28388
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
We went to see a movie last night and I saw the trailer for Lincoln Lawyer based on the Michael Connelly book.
The full trailer spoiled the ENTIRE book. I could not believe it. There are scenes from the movie in the trailer that happen very late in the book.
sumi - Mar 14, 2011 6:18:01 am PDT #14079 of 28388
Art Crawl!!!
Contributers to Teeth talk about whether they'd like to be a vampire for a month. (And there are two videos at that link.)
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2011 2:50:56 pm PDT #14080 of 28388
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are book genres being replaced by affinity clusters? An IO9 reprint.
Of a guy who's never heard of Barbara Cartland or Harold Robbins. And who misspells Gaiman and Rowling.
I, however, had not heard of George Simenon.
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:04:02 pm PDT #14081 of 28388
Because books.
I hadn't heard of Simenon, either.
I wonder how old (young) the author is that he had never heard of Cartland or Robbins.
Consuela - Mar 14, 2011 4:08:28 pm PDT #14082 of 28388
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have heard of Simenon; mysteries, I think.
Polter-Cow - Mar 14, 2011 4:09:26 pm PDT #14083 of 28388
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've never heard of Cartland, Robbins, or Simenon.