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.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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 28288
"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
erikaj - Mar 21, 2012 8:16:49 am PDT #18265 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
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 28288
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 28288
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 28288
brillig
There wasn't a recycling place nearby?
askye - Mar 21, 2012 9:34:46 am PDT #18269 of 28288
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 28288
brillig
Plus the cathartic fun of ripping stuff up.
smonster - Mar 21, 2012 9:42:53 am PDT #18271 of 28288
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 28288
"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 28288
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?"