Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...

'War Stories'


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."


meara - Aug 16, 2011 7:04:52 pm PDT #16083 of 28291

Yes--thanks to a rec from Connie I am reading an EPIC Hermoine fic on my kindle. Wheee!


Consuela - Aug 16, 2011 7:08:35 pm PDT #16084 of 28291
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

meara-- is that the one from FFN? because if so, I should warn you, it's a big ragged. I skimmed a lot. Loved the content, but the presentation needs some work.


meara - Aug 16, 2011 7:32:08 pm PDT #16085 of 28291

Yep, that one. It's better than a lot of the free/cheap stuff on amazon! The formatting came out a bit weird but it's reminding me a bit of the fake news article about the books being about Hermoine--I am quite enjoying something from her viewpoint. I haven't read much potterfic in years.


Consuela - Aug 16, 2011 7:44:53 pm PDT #16086 of 28291
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

How did you get it in one file?


meara - Aug 16, 2011 7:46:39 pm PDT #16087 of 28291

Downloaded a program designed to get things off FFN actually--I read the first couple chapters online and then realized how long it is...ice been reading it for hours (and I read fast--usually finish a book in an hour or two) and I'm only 30% done.


Jessica - Aug 17, 2011 7:23:31 am PDT #16088 of 28291
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So I spent my vacation mainlining George RR Martin and was finally able to start ADWD when I got back without being totally lost. AFFC definitely improves on reread (mainly because this time I wasn't skimming through all the Iron Islands chapters going "YOU'RE BORING WHERE THE FUCK ARE TYRION AND DAENERYS???") but man, it's good to be back with the Northern characters again. I'm remarkably unspoiled too, which is surprising since I did read all the whitefont in this thread when it first came out.


Liese S. - Aug 17, 2011 12:55:05 pm PDT #16089 of 28291
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ha, your character preferences are my character preferences! I bought adwd while on the road but didn't make much progress with the busy nature of my summers. But I have a week or two now, so I expect to blaze through pretty quick now that I'm home.


Amy - Aug 17, 2011 2:28:38 pm PDT #16090 of 28291
Because books.

"YOU'RE BORING WHERE THE FUCK ARE TYRION AND DAENERYS???"

This is pretty much me, if you add Jon Snow, and I'm only on A Clash of Kings. I do like Davos Seaworth so far, though. Crap, I hope I got that name right.


sumi - Aug 18, 2011 9:16:53 am PDT #16091 of 28291
Art Crawl!!!

Have you guys heard of Booklamp? It's supposed to be like Pandora, only for books.

(Davos Seaworth is right. I like him too.)


Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2011 9:19:18 am PDT #16092 of 28291
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Would You Please Fucking Stop? by Ursula K. Le Guin