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I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Consuela - Mar 20, 2006 9:49:55 am PST #189 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Atropa - Mar 20, 2006 10:05:44 am PST #190 of 28061
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, dear, oh, dear... From the Amazon reviews:
And it is precisely the amusing trainwreck you would predict from those reviews. I made an off-hand comment to one of my co-workers about reading vampire novels; the next day she loaned me Micah. I read it on the bus ride home, and couldn't stop rolling my eyes and snickering.
Calli - Mar 20, 2006 10:22:49 am PST #191 of 28061
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I can't quite bring myself to buy it, and I haven't seen it in the library--nor have I really looked all that hard.
But my editor-in-chief's wife travels a lot, and buys LKH novels (among others) for the plane. Every few months the EiC brings a bag of them and leaves them in the lunch room. I'll probably grab it then. From the sounds of things, I'd better get my eye-rolling exercises underway so I don't sprain anything when the time comes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2006 12:59:33 pm PST #192 of 28061
"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 think she and Anne Rice need to have tea and whinge about how the readers just don't understand their suffering and the Greatness of their Art.
Now I find myself dreading the possibility that Anne might form a similar attachment to Jesus and Judas while writing the former's "autobiography", and decide to do away with all that sad-making death in the story to improve it.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2006 2:40:52 pm PST #193 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now I find myself dreading the possibility that Anne might form a similar attachment to Jesus and Judas while writing the former's "autobiography", and decide to do away with all that sad-making death in the story to improve it.
Dreading? Personally, I look forward to the trainwreck of her new musical, Jesus Christ Mary Sue.
Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2006 5:56:06 pm PST #194 of 28061
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Does anyone want my copy of Obsidian Butterfly? Paperback? I tried to re-read it, and even that one is unreadable to me. There's too much good fic out there to waste time on that stuff.
meara - Mar 20, 2006 7:42:18 pm PST #195 of 28061
From the sounds of things, I'd better get my eye-rolling exercises underway so I don't sprain anything when the time comes.
Definitely. Though I'm *almost* looking forward to the next one, given how ridiculously bad the preview chapter was.
Calli - Mar 21, 2006 4:02:22 am PST #196 of 28061
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Though I'm *almost* looking forward to the next one, given how ridiculously bad the preview chapter was.
That's what keeps me reading (ok, skip and skimming). Well, that and my fondness for Jason. It's kind of telling that the emotionally healthiest character in the series is a porn-star/stripper werewolf.
beth b - Mar 21, 2006 10:05:06 am PST #197 of 28061
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Micah was sitting on the new book display at the library last night - and it was a rough night at the library. I wanted some light reading. But I wanted to get lost in the book , not role my eyes. So I picked up Forever by jude Devereaux ( or howevr you spell her name). guess who is trapped in an eye-rolling book. I think I was lied to about the nature of our heroine. That pisses me off.
Kathy A - Mar 21, 2006 10:21:59 am PST #198 of 28061
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I have to confess that probably my biggest guilty pleasure romance is Sweet Liar by Deveraux. It has one of the more annoying heroines possible, hits just about every cliche that would drive me up the wall if it was reality, but I just love the makeover scene when she gets dragged kicking and screaming into Saks Fifth Avenue and comes out absolutely fabulous. If I were thinking objectively, I'd give it 1 1/2 to 2 stars (out of 5), but I keep it on my bookshelf and reread it occasionally.
The best Deveraux is A Knight in Shining Armor, a great time travel to Elizabethan England.