Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.

'Safe'


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."


Amy - Oct 30, 2012 5:52:28 pm PDT #20046 of 28344
Because books.

The Stand should definitely count as more than one.

I also wiki'd! And I'm surprised by how many of his books I haven't read. A friend loved Insomnia and sent me an extra copy, but it's another tome. I just started Just After Sunset, because it's short stories and I have no attention span right now.

Hey, Steph, tell me what you think of The Diviners when you're done. I haven't read it yet, but I read the first chapter (possibly less?) online and was really underwhelmed. A friend said that it picks up once Evie is introduced, and that she loved it. And she *didn't* like A Great and Terrible Beauty.


Steph L. - Oct 30, 2012 5:56:22 pm PDT #20047 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I haven't read it yet, but I read the first chapter (possibly less?) online and was really underwhelmed.

It really does start slowly. Amazon's sample was something like 11 chapters, and I was going to just stop reading after the first one, but I was killing time after a meeting, so I kept reading, and then it got me.

A friend said that it picks up once Evie is introduced

It definitely really does. I think Bray is taking too long to introduce some elements and integrate them (I hit one of those "Oh, I see how this is coming together!" moments, and realized it was goddamn page 262.)

That said, I'm REALLY enjoying it. It's one of those books where I can't wait to get home from work to read more.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 30, 2012 6:02:16 pm PDT #20048 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I went on the same binge in college, Steph! For some reason, as and English and theatre major, with all the reading, the only thing I could read for "fun" was Stephan King.


Amy - Oct 30, 2012 6:03:36 pm PDT #20049 of 28344
Because books.

Good to know. I'll probably put it on my Christmas list. I have all of her books but Beauty Queens in hardcover, so it would be crazy and obsessive nice to continue the trend.


Steph L. - Oct 30, 2012 6:07:32 pm PDT #20050 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Good to know. I'll probably put it on my Christmas list.

It's creepy as shit, which makes it timely to be reading now.


Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 7:33:57 pm PDT #20051 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

They're both good, and they *are* different, but they're also the same at the base. I loved seeing that, how you can take one story and tell it a completely different way.

I've been wanting to read those books for years because the idea behind them sounded so interesting. I wanted to see how they worked together, how they were connected.

Right now I'm beginning my John Green audiobook binge. Just started Looking for Alaska.


DavidS - Oct 30, 2012 7:36:17 pm PDT #20052 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Right now I'm beginning my John Green audiobook binge.

I just discovered the other day that he went to my alma mater, Kenyon.


Consuela - Oct 30, 2012 8:26:37 pm PDT #20053 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

XKCD on 50 Shades of Gray: [link]

Too awesome.


Beverly - Oct 31, 2012 12:42:32 am PDT #20054 of 28344
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

P-C, there are probably better short stories, but my first love is still strong for Night Shift. There's a little sequel to Salem's Lot in there.


JZ - Oct 31, 2012 1:19:24 am PDT #20055 of 28344
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Insomnia is not only a fine novel, but it's a fine example of King showering love and affection on another writer -- Stephen Dobyns's Cemetery Nights, one of the most splendid poetry books of the last few decades, plays a minor but important role. King annoyingly didn't use any of my personal favorites, but the ones he did use were pretty spot-on for the story he was telling, and it was just so fun to stumble on one writer I love in the middle of another writer I love.