Harper Collins blurb for A Dance with Dragons.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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 11, 2011 11:36:29 am PST #14076 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2011 9:33:10 pm PST #14077 of 28287
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 28287
"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 28287
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 28287
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 28287
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 28287
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 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've never heard of Cartland, Robbins, or Simenon.
-t - Mar 14, 2011 4:11:07 pm PDT #14084 of 28287
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Simenon is the only one of those three I've read.
Eta: I've heard of all of them, though. Those are ubiquitous names, or were.
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:18:44 pm PDT #14085 of 28287
Because books.
Barbara Cartland was sort of the heiress to Georgette Heyer, and one of the forebears of the modern romance. Harold Robbins wrote big sexy potboiler family dramas. Both HUGE in the 1970s.
::grabs cane and hobbles far away from P-C::