On a tangential note, we finally have an answer to the question of just how bad a horror-themed book would need to be to NOT get the ubiquitous complimentary quote from King that appeared on the cover of just about every genre book I read in the 80s and 90s.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2012 6:03:30 am PDT #18264 of 28626
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
erikaj - Mar 21, 2012 8:16:49 am PDT #18265 of 28626
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
is that the same one who finished off talking about men and strong women and made me feel all "You say that word a lot...I don't think it means what you think it means." Matt, I finally read "On Writing" and it appears that possibly over-blurbing, while not a symptom as such, coincides neatly with his cocaine and heavy drinking days...maybe he'd like to take some of them back, too.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2012 8:23:15 am PDT #18266 of 28626
brillig
There's a scene in a Castle episode where Rick Castle has been shipped a box full of books to review, and he's sitting at the kitchen counter holding them to his forehead a la The Great Carnac and saying things like "A tour-de-force of terror" and "A fabulous page-turner."
askye - Mar 21, 2012 9:03:52 am PDT #18267 of 28626
Thrive to spite them
I was at the weekly library book sale yesterday and I saw Blue Adept and another Peirs Anthony book. You can get a whole bag of books for $3, so I found a bunch I wanted and got those 2. And then went home and threw them in the trash.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2012 9:26:14 am PDT #18268 of 28626
brillig
There wasn't a recycling place nearby?
askye - Mar 21, 2012 9:34:46 am PDT #18269 of 28626
Thrive to spite them
I don't know of one and hardcover books are on the list of unacceptable items for the recycling containers here.
I haven't actually thrown the trash out so I could tear all the pages out to put in recycling and just throw away the spines and covers.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2012 9:42:16 am PDT #18270 of 28626
brillig
Plus the cathartic fun of ripping stuff up.
smonster - Mar 21, 2012 9:42:53 am PDT #18271 of 28626
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
There wasn't a recycling place nearby?
Hey, that's my line!
I haven't actually thrown the trash out so I could tear all the pages out to put in recycling and just throw away the spines and covers.
Yep, that would be the way to do it. (But honestly, I don't care. I think taking those things out of circulation was great, and I'm not sweating a half pound of paper.)
Ginger - Mar 21, 2012 10:55:05 am PDT #18272 of 28626
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Normally, I object strongly making things by destroying books. However, crafts made from used Piers Anthony books have a certain appeal. [link] [link]
Hil R. - Mar 21, 2012 10:59:34 am PDT #18273 of 28626
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I told my father that I'd read the Hunger Games books, and he said, "Those are books for kids, right? But I guess Harry Potter books were books for kids, and I read those." I said, "No, they're really more for teenagers than for kids -- definitely for older kids than at least the first few Harry Potter books." He replied, "Oh, so they're like those vampire books, then?"