Didn't you love Elizabeth, P-C? And Wireman...I'd like to sit down and have some margaritas with him.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 5:10:10 am PDT #20023 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 5:31:21 am PDT #20024 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Elizabeth was great! And I really liked Wireman a lot. His constant use of Spanish was simultaneously annoying and endearing (especially given his reason for knowing it). I was so sad that he had to fucking die so soon after everything settled down. I know Perse didn't have anything to do with it (OR DID SHE), but it sucks.
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 5:39:02 am PDT #20025 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ITA on your whitefont. But King'll do that; have you read "Bag of Bones?" If not, I really recommend!
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 5:58:11 am PDT #20026 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have not! I haven't read a lot of modern King. Or old-school King. There is a lot of King, after all.
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 6:20:13 am PDT #20027 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Get on that horse, fella! Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap. Or try Skeleton Crew or Different Seasons if, like me, you need to read short stories before red, or else you're up the whole night or most of it, finishing the damned novel!
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 6:22:40 am PDT #20028 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I know I read one of the short story collections a long time ago, but I can't remember which. I think it was whichever one had "Sometimes They Come Back" and "The Lawnmower Man" (which, what the hell, was nothing at all like the movie). I will probably check out the Nightmares and Dreamscapes audiobook because it has a huge cast of readers, many of whom I recognize.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 30, 2012 8:11:56 am PDT #20029 of 28344
"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
Everything's Eventual is a pretty good SS collection.
Atropa - Oct 30, 2012 9:13:01 am PDT #20030 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap.
Yes. You need to read 'Salem's Lot, like, right now. And as I said a few months ago, IT held up surprisingly well from the last time I read it. (Except for that one plot point, but that was ludicrous the first time around, too.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 9:28:23 am PDT #20031 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, I've read both those books. I read 'Salem's Lot for my American Gothic class in college. I love It and have wanted to re-read it. I love The Stand and The Shining, and I've read Carrie and The Cycle of the Werewolf. And I really liked Dreamcatcher. And I love On Writing.
le nubian - Oct 30, 2012 9:34:19 am PDT #20032 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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I need to read Cloud Atlas too. We can form a book club!
I just finished Deadline - and the newsflesh trilogy. That was a pretty good read! I kind of want more. I wasn't wholly satisfied with the end, but oh well.