Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


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 28611
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 28611
Art Crawl!!!

New sneak peek from GRRM's Winds of Winter.


sumi - Jan 09, 2013 6:54:50 am PST #20247 of 28611
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 28611
"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 28611
"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 28611
"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 28611
Art Crawl!!!

Excerpt from the Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker.


le nubian - Jan 10, 2013 1:44:10 pm PST #20252 of 28611
"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 28611
"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 28611
"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.