You can't buy the UK versions in the US, for no apparent reason: [link]
That's disturbing. You're emotionally scarred and will end up badly.
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Tom Scola - Mar 27, 2012 10:08:55 am PDT #18300 of 28289
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Hil R. - Mar 28, 2012 2:56:34 pm PDT #18301 of 28289
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My father's reaction to Hunger Games (he's not finished yet -- he just got past the banquet): "These are really hard books to read. It just grabs your emotions and doesn't let go. I mean, in the Harry Potter books, characters died, but this is just kids killing kids, relentlessly." I don't think I've ever seen him react to a book like that before. I told him that the other two are even more so, and he said that he's not sure if he's going to read those, in that case.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 28, 2012 4:03:40 pm PDT #18302 of 28289
"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
That's one of the big reasons I've had no interest in reading them - not the sort of horror I like in my escapist fiction.
erikaj - Mar 28, 2012 5:04:03 pm PDT #18303 of 28289
Always Anti-fascist!
I read the first one...it was well-crafted but too much, somehow.
Consuela - Mar 29, 2012 7:23:22 am PDT #18304 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Best author rant ever:
A guy who was not nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award goes off on the writers who were: [link]
Charlie Stross is running with it, and has even made t-shirts.
Jessica - Mar 29, 2012 7:26:43 am PDT #18305 of 28289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to say, this description of Stross as a writer had me cracking up:
Stross writes like an internet puppy: energetically, egotistically, sometimes amusingly, sometimes affectingly, but always irritatingly, and goes on being energetic and egotistical and amusing for far too long. You wait nervously for the unattractive exhaustion which will lead to a piss-soaked carpet.
Amy - Mar 29, 2012 7:29:28 am PDT #18306 of 28289
Because books.
I WANT THE T-SHIRT.
Ginger - Mar 29, 2012 7:58:38 am PDT #18307 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hmm. I read several of Christopher Priest's early books and gave up on him. His books were so progressive and modern that they were boring and incomprehensible. It's not that I think a bad writer can't have good judgment about the works of others; it's just that I can't help thinking about black pots and glass houses.
Atropa - Mar 29, 2012 8:58:45 am PDT #18308 of 28289
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I've only read The Prestige, and it made a much better movie. But oh! I love angry entitled author rants. So much fun.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 29, 2012 9:52:53 am PDT #18309 of 28289
"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
I'm surprised Priest was able to see past his ego to read the nominees' books. Perhaps it's grown transparent in tandem with its inflation?