Frickin' back covers! I try to avoid reading them if I know I'm going to read the book.
I'm still annoyed that the jacket blurb for The Lovely Bones spoiled THE CLIMAX OF THE BOOK.
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Polter-Cow - Aug 03, 2011 1:02:06 pm PDT #15852 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 1:02:44 pm PDT #15853 of 28293
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
G.K. Chesterton wrote a poem about how everything is on the back of the cover.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 04, 2011 4:11:04 am PDT #15854 of 28293
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
House of Stairs was great. It definitely had a big impact on me as a kid, especially in the area of "the authorities may not have your best interests at heart".
hippocampus - Aug 04, 2011 5:20:42 pm PDT #15855 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Has anyone toyed with The Mongoliad? They're up to 30-some chapters (if I read the TOC right) - that's a lot of catching up.
Consuela - Aug 04, 2011 8:30:45 pm PDT #15856 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Has anyone toyed with The Mongoliad?
I remember hearing about it before it started, but nothing since. Is it any good?
hippocampus - Aug 05, 2011 4:18:03 am PDT #15857 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, I braked at the TOC. I'm still considering the commitment.
"You Can Stuff Your Mary-Sue Where The Sun Don't Shine" Hah.
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2011 8:40:25 am PDT #15858 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"You Can Stuff Your Mary-Sue Where The Sun Don't Shine" Hah.
That reminded me that I'm behind on the Demon's Lexicon series. I think I only read the first one, actually.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2011 8:48:05 am PDT #15859 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I feel bad for the Department of Mysteries. The DA totally destroyed, like, hundreds of prophecies! What if they were important?!
Holli - Aug 05, 2011 9:34:30 am PDT #15860 of 28293
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I was thinking recently about how Harriet Vane is a total authorial self-insert, and yet is also totally awesome and not a Mary Sue.
My going theory is that Dorothy Sayers herself is so awesome that inserting herself into the story just carried the awesome along with her. Well, and also Harriet is flawed and fairly realistic, but I like the awesomeness theory better.
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2011 9:35:59 am PDT #15861 of 28293
brillig
I always wanted to smack Harriet and tell her to get over her ruined self.