Why dystopians/post apocalpytics are the new vampires: [link]
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
Kat - Jul 19, 2012 7:00:18 pm PDT #19433 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Gris - Jul 20, 2012 1:37:37 am PDT #19434 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I read the first two, maybe three, but then I got bored with them.
I don't totally disagree with you - I enjoyed the first three but wasn't all "must read more!". Then I got the next two from the library to read this week and for some reason, they grabbed me much more than they did the first time around. I think because the series is doing more interesting things with the twin characters in the later books - spending some more time on moral quandaries and character development, aiming a little older (like later HP books, to some extent.) Plus, the whole story is simply becoming much more epic. The completeness of the world-building is starting to feel less like Percy Jackson and more like a baby Game of Thrones!
bennett - Jul 21, 2012 7:27:16 am PDT #19435 of 28343
Princess Bride (Kindle version) on sale for $1.99 today.
hippocampus - Jul 25, 2012 4:44:39 pm PDT #19436 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 6:26:32 pm PDT #19437 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, that reminds me--I came across a tumblr post a few months ago reposted by this chick I added to my dash from IO9. She really quickly made a name for herself in social justice fandom, despite not actually knowing stuff about fandom (like-Sam&Dean fic is not Sam/Dean fic, sweetie), but because she's always angry about someone being exploited somehow.
Since fandom's problem is that it's always sucking the big white cis cock, we must read more sci fi by black female writers, right? So why not give a huge signal boost to pirated e-copies of almost every book Octavia Butler's ever written?
No, I don't care about the "I read it for free, so I went and bought others" argument. That starts to look less convincing looking at almost 15 links.
And...clearly I'm still grumpier about that than I'd have thought.
Ice cream, then.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 25, 2012 6:31:45 pm PDT #19438 of 28343
"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 thinking the prolem of fandom sucking the big white cis cock might be better rectified by paying for Octavia Butler books so publishers might be inclined to print works by demographically similar authors.
Polter-Cow - Jul 25, 2012 6:34:50 pm PDT #19439 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Man, I just started listening to the Room audiobook, and it's so well done it's creepy. They have multiple actors, so one person is doing Jack's narration, and then another person does Ma's dialogue, and the whole effect is like I'm listening in on them in the Room. How is Ma's dialogue formatted in the book? Because there don't seem to be dialogue tags; she just speaks sometimes. Also, I presume all the objects are capitalized? Rug, Plant, Table, Cabinet, etc?
hippocampus - Jul 25, 2012 6:43:56 pm PDT #19440 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
Wait - pirated copies of Butler off my link? I'm confused.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 6:45:06 pm PDT #19441 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously. It's not like TPTB is sitting there with a stopwatch counting hits on the pirated ebooks and then throwing money at Spelman;'s English Lit department.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 6:45:51 pm PDT #19442 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
pirated copies of Butler off my link? I'm confused.
No, I said it was something I came across months ago.