Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Butterbeer always sounded painfully yum to me (I always imagined it pretty much just how -t and meara described), and now Polgara is not helping with the craving one tiny bit.
Pumpkin juice, less yum, though I have had some excellent pumpkin smoothies (they tasted like pumpkin pie ice cream milkshakes).
There's also the unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook which apparently has a butterbeer recipe.
But after Polgara's report I'm content with my suggestion.
It was sooooo yummy, we all had seconds. Only had the frozen butterbeer though--it was September and ickily humid out.
They also had bottles of pumpkin juice, but we never got around to trying that.
I can't imagine what pumpkin juice tastes like but I would like to try it. As I read the books I imagined butterbeer was the the hard cider version of rootbeer.
As I read the books I imagined butterbeer was the the hard cider version of rootbeer.
That I would drink. But the butterscotch and cream soda stuff sounds too sweet for me. I like my beers bitter (IPA, yum!).
Luna & Neville are my favorites. I would LOVE to read the further adventures of Luna.
The butterbeer they serve at the Harry Potter Universal park in Florida is delicious--somewhere between cream soda and butterscotch, with whipped cream on top
That does sound astonishingly good.
I think that after I finish the novel I'm going to have to read that fan novel the wanky person wrote about Dumbledore's Army. Has anyone read it? Is it actually, you know, good?
Deadline : I finished it shortly after I wrote that. The interesting thing for me with both these books is that nothing much happens...in fact Deadline seems to have a lot less story than Feed. But I really enjoy them nonetheless and can't stop reading once I start.
Embassytown : More story than most Mieville, but kind of a lame one, IMHO. I think the problem there for me is that his world building and language are fantastic, so when he reverts to a plot that only a writer could love I get all eye-rolly.
Well, I finished Deadline. I liked Feed a good deal more. However, I realize that the second book of most trilogies tends to be weaker than the first and third.