That was my reaction to it too.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
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."
Dana - Oct 09, 2011 7:55:42 am PDT #16556 of 28288
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Strix - Oct 09, 2011 8:04:14 am PDT #16557 of 28288
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Good, it wasn't just me. I felt the characters weren't really developed well. I could have really cared less about them.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2011 9:03:03 am PDT #16558 of 28288
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I started Boneshaker and didn't finish it. The premise sounded right up my alley, but I just wasn't feeling it. I hate not finishing books, but I could NOT get into it, and life is too short.
Sue - Oct 09, 2011 4:11:15 pm PDT #16559 of 28288
hip deep in pie
I read The Night Circus this weekend. Loved it. Love the world she built and reading the book was such a pleasure. Hated coming to the end of the book.
Ginger - Oct 09, 2011 4:45:30 pm PDT #16560 of 28288
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked Boneshaker. I had problems with the son as a viewpoint character, but I thought the other characters and the world building made it worthwhile. I am a sucker for cobbled together survival scenarios, though.
Connie Neil - Oct 09, 2011 6:33:35 pm PDT #16561 of 28288
brillig
Barnes & Noble has the Skullduggery Pleasant book as a free download too.
DebetEsse - Oct 09, 2011 6:54:56 pm PDT #16562 of 28288
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I've been plowing through the Hunger Games books, and, with about a third of Mockingjay left, I am posting. I've been reading Mark Reads along with the books (well, less so Catching Fire, which I was compelled to read in one most-of-the-night sitting, but I read afterward).
So, at this point:
- I want to recommend these books to everyone ever. We can haz consequences.
- I was picturing Finnick as at least in his 30s, if not pushing 40 (yes, I had previously done the math on Haymitch. I have no explanation for this delusion.), and then I checked the wiki, and he's, like, 26. He's younger than me. This is a fucked up world, yo.
- I kinda don't want either side to win.
- So, there's just a little bit of a food theme, eh? (I totally assumed Panem derived from "everything", rather than "bread", though.)
I expect to finish and then read the old posts here tonight. Maybe tomorrow, at the latest. I'm planning to go Occupy something tomorrow.
Strix - Oct 09, 2011 6:56:30 pm PDT #16563 of 28288
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Barnes & Noble has the Skullduggery Pleasant book as a free download too.
HELLS, YEAH!!!!
Connie Neil - Oct 09, 2011 6:59:58 pm PDT #16564 of 28288
brillig
And it now lurks on my Nook, waiting to be read.
Pix - Oct 09, 2011 8:20:35 pm PDT #16565 of 28288
The status is NOT quo.
I am such a Skulduggery junkie now. After reading books 1-3 on my Kindle and then discovering the rest aren’t out yet, I ended up finding a deal on Books 1-5 in paperback and buying them.
By the way, this was in part inspired by Seanan McGuire’s beautiful post about why paper books are so crucially important to avoid widening the gap even more between rich and poor: [link]
If you haven’t read it, I strongly recommend it. (It may have originally been linked to here, in which case I apologize for the redundancy. It’s really worth it, though,)