I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.

Buffy ,'Potential'


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."


Sparky1 - Jan 09, 2013 4:52:43 am PST #20245 of 28344
Librarian Warlord

The second part of the book has a different narrator, le nub, but no guarantee you will like that character any better. I stuck with it only to see how she tied up the loose ends, but I never actually liked it. Imagine me shrugging.


sumi - Jan 09, 2013 6:22:47 am PST #20246 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!

New sneak peek from GRRM's Winds of Winter.


sumi - Jan 09, 2013 6:54:50 am PST #20247 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!

Excerpt from the follow-up to Shelly Adina's Lady of Devices.


megan walker - Jan 09, 2013 8:33:55 am PST #20248 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I am getting ready to bail on it (and/or skim the rest) because I absolutely cannot stand the main narrator. I am interested in the end tho. Any suggestions from those of you who have read it? Should I hang in?

Amy or Nick? Either way, I'd say it's worth sticking with to see where it goes. But, FWIW, I thought Amy was supremely annoying in the beginning and ended up loving the book.


le nubian - Jan 09, 2013 8:47:38 am PST #20249 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Nick is who is annoying me. Amy (through her diaries) is okay I guess. From the beginning there are all these inconsistencies between the narratives that are driving me crazy (and not even across, but within - mostly Nick's). I'm trying to figure out if I should like someone in this book because so far, there isn't even a child in the narrative that I could care about.


le nubian - Jan 09, 2013 12:52:46 pm PST #20250 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I'm about halfway through Gone Girl. ah ha.

that's all I will say.


sumi - Jan 10, 2013 8:02:37 am PST #20251 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!

Excerpt from the Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker.


le nubian - Jan 10, 2013 1:44:10 pm PST #20252 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I finished Gone Girl.

What a fucked up book. I mean holy shit. I figured out the central "mystery" but I never would have predicted the end. Both because it is so unrealistic in comparison to the rest. I actually don't buy the ending at all. SPOILERS Nick is absolutely kidding himself if he thinks he can keep this ruse going on all the time while they raise a child - who might become a devil child too. What happens when two people with extremely bad judgment who have dysfunctional emotional responses and knee jerk violent impulses raise a child? Man.


megan walker - Jan 10, 2013 2:33:54 pm PST #20253 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Huh, that's sort of why I thought it was the perfect ending. I didn't like it, but it sort of felt like the only way to go.


le nubian - Jan 10, 2013 3:23:13 pm PST #20254 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I wanted something more on the lines of homicide-suicide. He drives them off a cliff.