I'm in the midst of the fourth book, AIFG!
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
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."
Pix - Oct 15, 2011 6:59:00 am PDT #16661 of 28282
The status is NOT quo.
Steph L. - Oct 15, 2011 7:07:01 am PDT #16662 of 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Okay, am I alone in my love for Billy-Ray Sanguine? He cracks my shit up, every time. And he is pretty effective in being a bad guy.
Also? I love Scapegrace. I don't know if he was a throwaway character who managed to make recurring status, or what, but he amuses the hell out of me.
Finally: TANITH LOW FOREVER.
Which is all I will say until people get to books 5 and 6.
sumi - Oct 15, 2011 8:15:50 am PDT #16663 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Tanya Huff short story collection up on Kindle.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2011 8:39:22 am PDT #16664 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was discussing The Hunger Games with my sister yesterday. She doesn't get YA. Like, didn't realise Harry Potter was considered YA. I was trying to convey the difficulty of rating the movie so that a YA audience could get in to see it, and she was all "But it has a happy ending, right?"
No, I told her. "But she wins, though?" No, I realised, really belatedly. She survives, but I don't think she wins.
The reason it came up was because a big burly guy at the next table was reading it. Now, the machismo in Jamaica is out of control, but it was the guy at a table with three other women that was reading the YA book with a female protagonist.
Consuela - Oct 15, 2011 9:06:54 am PDT #16665 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Now, the machismo in Jamaica is out of control, but it was the guy at a table with three other women that was reading the YA book with a female protagonist.
That's pretty awesome. Although I suspect a lot of guys will argue that it's not a girly book because of all the bloodshed.
Tom Scola - Oct 16, 2011 6:00:49 am PDT #16666 of 28282
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jeff Lindsay to write canonical Dexter comic books: [link]
Strix - Oct 16, 2011 6:20:25 pm PDT #16667 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Although I suspect a lot of guys will argue that it's not a girly book because of all the bloodshed.
@@ forever. Childbirth, anyone? And even for all the wimmin's like me who will never go through childbirth...um, menstruation much?
I've seen more blood in my life than most doctors. WTFever, "women and bloodshed."
Not directed at you, Suela; at the concept.
Consuela - Oct 16, 2011 6:22:38 pm PDT #16668 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I know. Violence is manly! Suffering to bring forth new life, however, isn't.
Strix - Oct 16, 2011 6:58:53 pm PDT #16669 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Violence isn't manly. It's human. Women are just as violent as men are; in general, women try other methods to resolve issues first -- some positive, some negative.
When I am Queen of the Universe, I will knock sense into people's headseses. Iron fist, stylish velvet glove.
DebetEsse - Oct 17, 2011 11:07:25 am PDT #16670 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Why are the 4th and 5th Skulduggery Pleasant books not only not at my library, but NOT IN THIS COUNTRY? What kind of bullshit is this, people?
Teppy, I think Billy-Ray doesn't show up until book 2, so Smonster, at least, hasn't met him yet. I like him, both as a well-drawn character and because he brings the creepy, in a couple different ways.
Tanith wins. Such a good contrast with Skul.
I do get much more of a whiff of intentional adolescence metaphor with SP than with HG, but that's probably only noticeable because I read the series back to back.
eta: which vaguely relates to my realization, when I was pondering what name I would take, that I already took a name back when I was in High School, and, yeah, teenagers are not necessarily the best at choosing long-term identifiers. Not that I regret the choice, but there is a bit of being stuck with it, now. t /eta
I just got through the chapter with Grouse's "you realize that it's problematic that you solve everything with violence, right?" speech, which I'm glad got pointed out.