Buffistas.org
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?

Buffy ,'Lessons'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

First Previous Next Last Recent
Toddson - Sep 22, 2011 12:19:15 pm PDT #16444 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I was in the bookstore today and saw a new one called something like "Definitely not Mr. Darcy". Yes, a takeoff on P&P - basically, a single mother becomes a contestant on a "reality" show where everyone lives as though it were the early 19th century and the women are trying to get a man to propose to them - they get the guy and a cash prize. So, basically, The Bachelor without modern conveniences.

um ... did the author watch the Regency House show on PBS? much the same (without the prize aspect).

With all the extrapolations and sequels to P&P, I get the feeling Jane Austen is (or should be) spinning in her grave.

le nubian - Sep 22, 2011 4:55:54 pm PDT #16445 of 28288
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

That could be PD James entire purpose in writing the novel.

ha! oh that would be hilarious.

a P&P era cozy.

Connie Neil - Sep 22, 2011 5:10:25 pm PDT #16446 of 28288
brillig

"Definitely not Mr. Darcy"

That actually sounds interesting, because god knows reality shows need ripping on.

Connie Neil - Sep 22, 2011 5:43:39 pm PDT #16447 of 28288
brillig

clam chowder

I'm reading the latest Harry Dresden, "Ghost Story". I've already cheated a little by reading the last page--I have suspense issues re: who lives and who dies--but it didn't answer the major question of what I think is going on. (Considering the last book ended with Harry being shot in the chest and being knocked into the lake with no one to help, and this one is called Ghost Story, Harry's current condition shouldn't be too much of a guess)

Liese S. - Sep 23, 2011 12:14:30 pm PDT #16448 of 28288
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

So, I read Hunger Games the first all in one sitting last night. And as I suspected, should have waited until I had all three from the library before I started book one.

Secondly, I just had a new subscriber to my ministry mailing list whose address is edward.xoxo. That bit of data is going to get out and infect my whole database, isn't it?

le nubian - Sep 23, 2011 12:16:43 pm PDT #16449 of 28288
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Liese,

the 3rd book continues right after the 2nd (not unlike the Girl With Dragon Tattoo series), so if you needed a break between books, now is the time to take it. The 2nd and 3rd should be read together, IMO.

Polter-Cow - Sep 23, 2011 12:40:43 pm PDT #16450 of 28288
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, I got to the end of the second book and was like YOU GUYS HAD TO WAIT A YEAR AFTER THIS??

Amy - Sep 25, 2011 5:32:59 pm PDT #16451 of 28288
Because books.

A sequel to The Shining! I had no idea.

Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2011 6:19:32 pm PDT #16452 of 28288
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

HOLY SHIT WHAT.

Although I don't know about that. The Shining was all about the Overlook.

Steph L. - Sep 25, 2011 6:35:10 pm PDT #16453 of 28288
I look more rad than Lutheranism

The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror has forever made me hear that in my head as "The Shinning," in Groundskeeper Willie's voice.

First Previous Next Last Recent