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."
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2012 8:23:15 am PDT #18266 of 28288
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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?"
Liese S. - Mar 23, 2012 11:23:37 am PDT #18274 of 28288
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The Hunger Games Adobe epub versions are on sale at Kobo for $.87, $1.07, & $1.17! via dealnews: [link]
You have to place three separate orders, as each coupon is only good for one book, but there are three coupons, "hungergamesdeal" "hungergamesdeal2" and "hungergamesdeal3".
The SO has been talking about reading them, so I'm excited for him to have them in his favorite format.
Amy - Mar 25, 2012 8:00:15 am PDT #18275 of 28288
Because books.
Finished The Fault in Our Stars, and I'm so blown away, I think I hate John Green just a little bit (although I also need to go get everything he's ever written immediately). I did sob, probably as hard as I did with Mockingjay, although it was a different kind of tears. Loved Hazel and Augustus so much, and Isaac, too. Actually, loved everyone, the parents, Kaitlyn, even Van Houten in all his misery.
In a few days, I might be inclined to think Hazel and Gus are a little too Special Snowflake to be completely believable (Gus's vocabulary alone, and I credit Green's editor with letting him roll with it, since everyone I know gets a lot of "But would a teen say that?"), but then again, maybe not. It all *feels* so true, and so honest, and it really is much more about living than about dying.