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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."

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Steph L. - Apr 01, 2011 5:53:57 am PDT #14268 of 28293

I look more rad than Lutheranism

And in e-reader news: Library Thing has introduced their ereader.

Nicely snarky, too:

"Though a ground-breaking arrangement with most publishers, the LibraryThing-e comes pre-installed with up to 200 of your LibraryThing books already scanned in; HarperCollins titles are restricted to a 26-page sample."

Burn!

sumi - Apr 01, 2011 6:09:05 am PDT #14269 of 28293

Art Crawl!!!

That's true.

Darn it.

Also: I can recommend Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant books as good Urban Fantasy.

Ginger - Apr 01, 2011 6:35:54 am PDT #14270 of 28293

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I can recommend Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant books as good Urban Fantasy.

Those were recently recommended to me elsewhere.

-t - Apr 01, 2011 6:44:43 am PDT #14271 of 28293

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I read the first one and liked it very much. Are there more out already?

sumi - Apr 01, 2011 6:46:26 am PDT #14272 of 28293

Art Crawl!!!

The second one came out in March. (Moon Over Soho)

sumi - Apr 01, 2011 6:47:47 am PDT #14273 of 28293

Art Crawl!!!

NYT interviews George R.R. Martin.

-t - Apr 01, 2011 7:03:48 am PDT #14274 of 28293

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay, downloading now!

Amy - Apr 02, 2011 2:51:28 pm PDT #14275 of 28293

Because books.

A Jane Eyre question, and I can't believe I can't remember this: was Mrs. Fairfax aware of Bertha's presence, or only Grace Poole?

Typo Boy - Apr 02, 2011 3:00:39 pm PDT #14276 of 28293

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Yep, the godlike power thing can get annoying,

I think this is an artifact of the idea that a series has to be a rising crescendo with higher stakes each book or story or episode than the last. In truth good series don't have to do this. The original Sherlock Holmes series followed the Moriarty conclusion with stories where several people were killed or one or no murder at all took place. Because both the character Holmes and the author Doyle took seriously the idea that a single death, or a single person's fate was as important and interesting as a super-villain or the the fate of a set of papers on which national security depended.

Rex Stout's Nero Wolf took on fictional super-villain Zeck in several books and real-life super-villain J. Edgar Hoover in one, and still managed non super-villain based stories. A series arc that constantly raises the stakes is certainly a valid choice for a series. I sometimes get the impression that many authors don't realize it is not the only choice.

sj - Apr 02, 2011 3:07:40 pm PDT #14277 of 28293

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Amy, I'm almost certain Mrs. Fairifax knew everything, but I haven't gotten that far in my re-read yet.

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