I'm almost through _Paper Towns_ by John Green and loving it.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
erin_obscure - Dec 06, 2012 8:25:08 am PST #20169 of 28378
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
zuisa - Dec 06, 2012 8:29:47 am PST #20170 of 28378
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I keep meaning to read more John Green, but The Fault in Our Stars ruined my day and then some with all the tears, and so I'm hesitant. However I feel like there is no way anything he's ever written or will write could possibly be sadder.
What is Paper Towns about?
Polter-Cow - Dec 06, 2012 8:48:20 am PST #20171 of 28378
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm almost through _Paper Towns_ by John Green and loving it.
I just finished it last week! I liked it, but not as much as The Fault in Our Stars or An Abundance of Katherines. I'm in the middle of Will Grayson, Will Grayson right now.
JZ - Dec 06, 2012 9:17:45 am PST #20172 of 28378
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Pretty sure Jilli NEEDS to own this.
Gris - Dec 06, 2012 9:33:40 am PST #20173 of 28378
Hey. New board.
However I feel like there is no way anything he's ever written or will write could possibly be sadder.
I just started The Fault In Our Stars, but several of his book are not even sad a little bit. An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson are both mostly happy times. And good!
Atropa - Dec 06, 2012 9:39:49 am PST #20174 of 28378
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Pretty sure Jilli NEEDS to own this.
I DO!
erin_obscure - Dec 06, 2012 9:29:55 pm PST #20175 of 28378
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Searching for Margot. Hah. Yup, pretty much. High school non entity/dweeb pursues elusive dream girl and realizes stuff about humanity and life and stuff.
Rayne - Dec 07, 2012 12:00:37 am PST #20176 of 28378
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Those are awesome, JZ! I'm sitting here drooling over several of them!
JZ - Dec 07, 2012 4:09:52 am PST #20177 of 28378
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Rayne, I found them through the recommend-a-thing-you-love post at John Scalzi's Whatever (a week-long shopping guide divided by day: Monday and Tuesday were pimp-a-thing-you-wrote, Wednesday was pimp-your-music, yesterday was stuff-you-didn't-make-but-love-and-want-everyone-else-to-too, and today is charities-and-worthy-causes). The whole comment thread made me whimper with grabbyhands, but man, those posters!
JZ - Dec 07, 2012 4:53:34 am PST #20178 of 28378
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Okay, seriously, which female Buffista doesn't need at least one of these?