4 out of 10
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
beth b - Jun 02, 2011 6:05:46 pm PDT #15062 of 28448
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
-t - Jun 02, 2011 6:08:30 pm PDT #15063 of 28448
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Do it! Plow through them all! Read read read!
I just downloaded the Hugo voters packet and i am strongly tempted to just fuck everything else until I have read all the SciFi.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 6:15:20 pm PDT #15064 of 28448
Because books.
I wish I could, -t! I mean, I want it RIGHT NOW. And I have no Kindle, and no bookstore is open now. So I'm sadfaced and counting the minutes till I can get to the bookstore tomorrow.
Jon and Arya and Dany are the biggest draws for me.
-t - Jun 02, 2011 6:21:32 pm PDT #15065 of 28448
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I see the dilemma. Lack of instant gratification bites! When I bought the first one, my BiL gave me the next two to be ready, so I wouldn't have to wait. I wish I could shove them through the interwebs to you now.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 6:25:48 pm PDT #15066 of 28448
Because books.
Wouldn't that be nice?
I didn't expect to like it so much. I generally like fantasy and sci-fi better filmed, and only a few of the books. Martin might not be a really sophisticated stylist, but he tells a damn good story.
Liese S. - Jun 02, 2011 6:30:34 pm PDT #15067 of 28448
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha. I borrowed the first one from my elibrary. I read it, loved it, and immediately put myself on the waitlist for the remaining ones. I had a pause after book two but I am now plowing through three and four.
-t - Jun 02, 2011 6:35:24 pm PDT #15068 of 28448
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's a ripping yarn. I just love the characters. I am often a plot-driven reader, I will keep reading because I need to find out what happens next, but I find with ASoIaF that what I need to find out is what happens next to these particular people. And wolves.
Laga - Jun 02, 2011 6:55:31 pm PDT #15069 of 28448
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
The two I got right were the two books I'd read although I thought I recognized DFW (I was wrong) and I thought Naipaul was a woman.
beth b - Jun 02, 2011 8:45:02 pm PDT #15070 of 28448
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just finished Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
I have no clue what I really think of this books. It is real horror. and horrible . but strip away all that and I found the mother/daughter relationship interesting and the boy /girl relationship very true with outh the over written drama of so many teen books
I'm stumped. Most of the people that hated it on Amazon didn't find it readable. I couldn't put it down
smonster - Jun 03, 2011 4:54:20 am PDT #15071 of 28448
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Tonight I discovered that Community College of Vermont offers a class " The Vampire in Literature, Culture & Film". I am going to take that class.
Do eeet. And report back.
I got 3 of 10. And have resolved never to read Naipaul. Asshole.