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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."

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Pix - Feb 19, 2012 6:28:42 am PST #17890 of 28333

The status is NOT quo.

I'd also have to point out that teenage boys (and, for that matter, college boys) don't always react or behave or respond like you think they will.

And that teenaged boys living in a totalitarian country, required to participate in a kill or be killed competition, and being starved to death are even harder to pigeonhole.

Steph L. - Feb 19, 2012 8:23:53 am PST #17891 of 28333

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Now into the discussion a couple days later, his point has been refined to "Peeta doesn't behave like a real teenage boy.".

None of the characters behave like "real" teenagers, if the touchstone is late-20th- and early-21st-century American teenagers.

beth b - Feb 19, 2012 9:45:42 am PST #17892 of 28333

oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Actually, i know one teenage boy that acts like Peeta

Gale is harder I don't know that many teenage boys that are that competent, but then they don't have to be .

I still haven't read the third book.

Pix - Feb 19, 2012 9:52:29 am PST #17893 of 28333

The status is NOT quo.

Yeah, the modern teenager is a product of 20th century American prosperity, which allowed there to be a middle ground between child and adult.

Toddson - Feb 19, 2012 9:53:32 am PST #17894 of 28333

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

DavidS - Feb 19, 2012 9:55:32 am PST #17895 of 28333

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sometimes extending into middle age ....

See for example: all Judd Apatow movies.

I was surprised when Emmett started his first umpiring job, how competent he was and how seriously he took it.

I think we've also seen with CJ that a lot of kids thrive with responsibility.

-t - Feb 19, 2012 12:03:36 pm PST #17896 of 28333

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, I've caught up on Skulduggery Pleasant and I'm a little wrung out. How much did I love Valkyrie's breakup with Caelan? A whole lot.

I'm with you, Steph, I don't like that Tanith has a Remnant in her but I do enjoy Remnant!Tanith and Billy Ray, who is a fun villain in his own right.

Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 19, 2012 12:59:03 pm PST #17897 of 28333

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

When I moved away from home my mom was astounded that I handled things like cleaning, laundry, and cooking (for the most part) just fine. It wasn't that I was incapable of doing any of that stuff before, I just needed to go from a situation where I wasn't the resident with the best work ethic/least tolerance for mess to one where I was.

Steph L. - Feb 19, 2012 4:26:56 pm PST #17898 of 28333

I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm with you, Steph, I don't like that

I love Billy-Ray Sanguine. I keep picturing him as a younger Brad Pitt. And I cannot get over Remnant!Tanith, GOD DAMN.

So, have you read all the way through Death Bringer?

-t - Feb 19, 2012 4:38:04 pm PST #17899 of 28333

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yup. So many revelations and so much stuff still to happen! i have been on pins and needles about the reflection for several books, I just know something is building there.

And put in a pre-order for End of the World though I feel VERY silly spending so much more for shipping than for the book.

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