It's more Anansi Boys than American Gods.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
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."
Polter-Cow - Mar 02, 2012 7:24:40 am PST #18100 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Consuela - Mar 02, 2012 7:25:28 am PST #18101 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Matilda, so cute!
I have been reading Michelle Sagara's Elantra novels--I got the first three bundled for Kindle from Amazon. I think Betsy might have recommended them.
And ... they are pissing me off. There's an interesting story there, and some cool world-building, but the prose is enraging me. It's so intentionally underwritten! Reads like a particular kind of fic, that stuff which is really allusive and spare, forcing the reader to pay really close attention and remember all the characters' histories and agendas in order to get the plot-related and emotional impact of the dialogue.
And seriously? I'm not willing to work that hard. Throw me a bone, dude. Don't treat me like I'm already invested, you gotta do some work up front, and she doesn't.
Also, I checked on Goodreads, and apparently six books in, the lead character hasn't actually developed much farther and still hasn't committed to any of her potential lovers.
Feh on that. I'm not wading through six volumes to discover that only four months have gone by and the character still refuses to learn or grow.
Vonnie K - Mar 02, 2012 7:39:27 am PST #18102 of 28282
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Good Omens is a much more fun read.
The book was my commuter-read this week and I had tough time staunching off the giggles several times.
They had me by the cast of character page, esp. at "Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)."
Consuela - Mar 02, 2012 7:46:37 am PST #18103 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I had tough time staunching off the giggles several times.
Yeah, I admit that I don't see a lot of Gaiman in Good Omens: it feels like mostly Pratchett to me.
Jessica - Mar 02, 2012 7:50:52 am PST #18104 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Adam/Them chapters felt Gaimanesque to me, especially the ending. Crowley and Aziraphale are pure Pratchett.
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2012 8:54:19 am PST #18105 of 28282
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I seem to recall that a lot of the stuff I thought was Pratchett turned out to be Gaiman.
Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever – by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. By agreement, I am allowed to say that Agnes Nutter, her life and death, was completely and utterly mine. And Neil proudly claims responsibility for the maggots. Neil's had a major influence on the opening scenes, me on the ending. In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock."[
Toddson - Mar 02, 2012 9:25:15 am PST #18106 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Isn't today Dr. Seuss's birthday? Happy Birthday!
Frankenbuddha - Mar 02, 2012 10:35:23 am PST #18107 of 28282
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Isn't today Dr. Seuss's birthday? Happy Birthday!
Aw, you think Google would have done something with the banner for that. Maybe it needs to be a significant birthday number?
Amy - Mar 02, 2012 10:36:42 am PST #18108 of 28282
Because books.
Yeah, it's 108 today.
Rayne - Mar 02, 2012 10:42:02 am PST #18109 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Speaking of Pratchett, despite reading The Wee Free Men (which I LOVED!), I still know nothing about Discworld, but I keep hearing that I need to read it or my nerd card will be taken away. So, where should I start? At the beginning? (which I just realized I don't even know what that is). Guards, Guards? (That's one I keep hearing mentioned.) Continue on with Tiffany Aching and then go back to the beginning?