These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


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."


Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2012 1:58:33 pm PDT #19671 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I think it is quite possible you are a cruel person!

Quite. As are my four compatriots in cruelty.

I am like the commenters. I think I read the book based on a few positive comments here. I didn't know ANYTHING about it except zombies. Literally.

Very cool! It's interesting to read those perspectives, what people think of these earlier chapters without knowing some of the basic things. For instance, Mark and a lot of other people are really concerned about the Wall, and I never really thought much about it. Except now I am wondering about it! Where is it? Who maintains it? Is it just a website? Is there a physical Wall too?

I had even forgotten it was a YA.

It's not.

The main hurdle for me to get over was the book's structure.

What do you mean? You mean the blog entries?


le nubian - Sep 06, 2012 2:11:34 pm PDT #19672 of 28343
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

It's not YA?

WTF? I thought for sure it was while reading it. Hmm.


le nubian - Sep 06, 2012 2:12:12 pm PDT #19673 of 28343
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Yeah, the blog entries and the little post-scripts at the end of each chapter, some with more oomph than others.


Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2012 2:13:53 pm PDT #19674 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Someone else said they found it in the YA section, but it's sci-fi/horror. The characters are also older than the typical YA protagonists.

There is another Feed that IS YA, so that's why you may have been confused.

Yeah, the blog entries and the little post-scripts at the end of each chapter, some with more oomph than others.

Yep. Yep.


le nubian - Sep 06, 2012 2:33:21 pm PDT #19675 of 28343
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

well I'll be damned. you know, I am not sure I knew how old the protags were. they seemed young to me, but you are right, they aren't 14 or anything.


Steph L. - Sep 06, 2012 2:44:46 pm PDT #19676 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I haz Skulduggery Pleasant! There goes my weekend.


Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2012 2:49:47 pm PDT #19677 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

they seemed young to me, but you are right, they aren't 14 or anything.

I think they're all mid- to late-twenties.


Liese S. - Sep 06, 2012 3:03:27 pm PDT #19678 of 28343
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ok, so now I need the Time to Read feature to extrapolate and turn the pages for me, at the rate I've been going in my current book. So it can let me blaze through easy read stuff and then give me more time for Jacques Ellul or whatever.

We can do this, peoples, we have the technology!


Jessica - Sep 07, 2012 7:46:21 am PDT #19679 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I could have used the Time To Read feature last night - I got into bed last night to read without realizing I was three pages from the end of the book. (Granted, I could have looked at the percentage last night and noticed I was 98% done, BUT STILL.)


Polter-Cow - Sep 07, 2012 7:59:15 am PDT #19680 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

98% is misleading, though! You don't know if the book actually goes to 100% or not. Like the Sherlock Holmes books I have are from Project Gutenberg, so at the end is all the copyright information and whatnot, so the books actually end in the 90% range.

It's like how I have to check each ASOIAF book to figure out when all the damn appendices start so I can gauge when I'll hit the end of the actual book.