Butterbeer report from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
It does sound good.
You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.
Giles ,'Touched'
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."
DavidS - Jun 08, 2011 12:22:39 pm PDT #15185 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polgara - Jun 08, 2011 12:28:00 pm PDT #15186 of 28282
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
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.
Laga - Jun 08, 2011 12:44:06 pm PDT #15187 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Consuela - Jun 08, 2011 12:55:43 pm PDT #15188 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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!).
Atropa - Jun 08, 2011 4:24:41 pm PDT #15189 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Consuela - Jun 08, 2011 6:35:59 pm PDT #15190 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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?
Volans - Jun 09, 2011 3:48:23 am PDT #15191 of 28282
move out and draw fire
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.
Toddson - Jun 09, 2011 4:58:53 am PDT #15192 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 09, 2011 5:46:17 am PDT #15193 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
I'm two-thirds of the way through and enjoying it more the second time around, I think. The first time, I did get that "nothing much happens" feeling in comparison to Feed, but I'm appreciating it more this time. Maybe because it's nice to have the refresher since I've been reading Blackout. This book seems to consist of a lot of Talking About Virology, but it's important stuff. I also realized I just like these characters.
Volans - Jun 09, 2011 6:51:52 am PDT #15194 of 28282
move out and draw fire
Maybe because it's nice to have the refresher since I've been reading Blackout.
Taunty McTauntypants.
Also, I have to say I like Shaun. It's fun to have a not-fully-sane POV character, and his violent streak is right for him.
One weird thing is that up until somewhere near the end of i Deadline, the After the End Times crew all seemed like teens or young-20s to me. I had to keep reminding myself that they were adults and that they'd be played by someone older than 18 in the movie. At the end of the book, they were totally adults in my head.
I'm not sure what changed, but I think it was Mahir. Where Rick's age was in contrast to the Masons, Mahir has always seemed their age, but mature...which in this case dragged my mental image of Shaun and George up to my mental image age for Mahir.