Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.

'Serenity'


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."


Frankenbuddha - Oct 06, 2011 4:32:21 am PDT #16520 of 28291
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

“Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”

I almost won't to throw that out (up?) at a meeting and see if anyone blinks. Almost.


Ginger - Oct 06, 2011 6:22:17 am PDT #16521 of 28291
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Garth Williams' illustrations for Farmer Boy at auction: [link]


Kathy A - Oct 06, 2011 6:28:55 am PDT #16522 of 28291
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Oh, man, do I want a Garth Williams Little-House-series original! If I ever win the lottery, that's on the top of my list.


Consuela - Oct 06, 2011 7:38:06 am PDT #16523 of 28291
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Fox is adapting The Magicians for television: [link]


Polter-Cow - Oct 06, 2011 7:49:02 am PDT #16524 of 28291
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Oh, interesting. And Miller and Stentz have good television pedigree (Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe).


DavidS - Oct 06, 2011 8:43:47 am PDT #16525 of 28291
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Fox is adapting The Magicians for television: [link]

::covers JZ's eyes::

Cool. I knew somebody would snap it up and I hoped it would be a series instead of a movie. I was reading the sequel in the bookstore and it's very engaging.


le nubian - Oct 06, 2011 9:32:43 am PDT #16526 of 28291
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Has anyone finished the sequel? I'm afraid to start it. I had some problems with the latter half of the first book and I want to know how the narrative structure of the 2nd is.


DavidS - Oct 06, 2011 9:48:31 am PDT #16527 of 28291
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Has anyone finished the sequel?

I haven't finished it. I do know that the reviews I've read indicate that this book is much more accomplished and assured structurally than the first one.


Strix - Oct 06, 2011 10:29:43 am PDT #16528 of 28291
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Does anyone have a Nook, and want to do the Lend Me thing? I'm especially curious if The Night Circus is on LendMe; I want to read it, but we're having to be super, super careful with money.

My Nook LendMe addy is erinLASTNAME AT hotmail DOT com.

(if you can't remember my last name, e-me at my profile addy -- I'm happy to lend whatever LendMe books I have on my Nook)


JZ - Oct 06, 2011 11:57:38 am PDT #16529 of 28291
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I don't need my eyes covered. That's the irksome but emotionally irrelevant twin. Now if that superhero novel by the other one gets optioned and names I love and can't resist become attached to it, please just stuff me in a box until the thing is out, closed, and shoved in the back of the DVD clearance racks.