First Dates with Fictional Men.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
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 - Feb 13, 2013 8:24:16 am PST #20418 of 28354
Because books.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 2:04:53 pm PST #20419 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Amy, that's fantastic. I want someone to do one for Spike or Angel, or for Francis Crawford.
In other news, I have become predictable. I'm reading a new epic fantasy recommended by Sherwood Smith, and I'm three or four chapters in, and the only named female characters are the flirtatious shopgirl and the Evil Sorceress Queen from the country next door.
On edit: and this makes me cranky.
Sigh.
hippocampus - Feb 13, 2013 3:11:04 pm PST #20420 of 28354
not your mom's socks.
Which one is this?
Sherwood's been writing things all week that make me grin.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 3:13:10 pm PST #20421 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tom Simon's The End of Earth and Sky. The writing's not bad, but at the moment it feels very much like potboy-becomes-Hero, with an overlay of Woefully Misunderstood, since the frame story is that he's on trial for being The Big Bad.
hippocampus - Feb 13, 2013 3:29:11 pm PST #20422 of 28354
not your mom's socks.
oh. my. Going to look some more.
Miracleman - Feb 15, 2013 4:34:05 am PST #20423 of 28354
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Anybody read Pratchett's "Snuff" yet? Just finished it and was disturbed by how not-quite-Pratchett it was.
Has his daughter started ghostwriting for him already?
Liese S. - Feb 15, 2013 4:38:06 am PST #20424 of 28354
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I have it. Have you read his other recent non-Discworld stuff? I feel like it's probably in line with that stuff.
Amy - Feb 15, 2013 4:42:15 am PST #20425 of 28354
Because books.
Okay, I'm still only about a quarter of the way through Gone Girl and I have the horrible feeling that I know what the twist is.
Is this something Amy and Nick set up together? Is it a twisted kind of treasure hunt Amy's making Nick go through to prove something about their marriage or his love?
Consuela - Feb 15, 2013 5:00:15 am PST #20426 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read Snuff. I do rather wonder when we'll run out of species to learn not to be racist about.
Miracleman - Feb 15, 2013 5:10:39 am PST #20427 of 28354
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Consuela- Right?!
But beyond that...it just felt more like fanfic (no offense to anyone meant). Everybody was WAY too verbose and nobody had a distinct voice. Vimes was no fun...he had freakin' SUPERPOWERS for fuck's sake!
It read like somebody else playing in the Discworld sandbox.