Skulduggery Pleasant! I think you will like it.
Oh yes. It's so entertaining. There are antics. And hilarity.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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."
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2013 5:54:42 pm PST #20458 of 28358
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Amy - Feb 18, 2013 5:57:10 pm PST #20459 of 28358
Because books.
I like that there are no books Buffistas don't have opinions about.
Consuela, one of the books I need to finish is A Brief History of Montmaray. I sort of feel like it might be a little jarring to go there after Gone Girl, but it is another possibility.
meara - Feb 18, 2013 6:10:29 pm PST #20460 of 28358
I have Book Thief on my Kindle and haven't read it. I read half of Skulduggery Pleasant and put it down and never finished it. And I haven't read Looking for Alaska, but enjoyed Fault in Our Stars. So, um...I say finish Montmaray? (I read that one but have the other two books in the series and haven't read those!)
Consuela - Feb 18, 2013 6:12:06 pm PST #20461 of 28358
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really loved the Montmaray novels: read them all twice over within one twelve-month period.
If that means anything.
Amy - Feb 18, 2013 6:25:11 pm PST #20462 of 28358
Because books.
I can't remember why I put down Montmaray in the first place, but I did love what I had read to that point. (Oh, I think a library book came in and then I forgot to go back. Books are so SHINY.)
megan walker - Feb 18, 2013 6:31:58 pm PST #20463 of 28358
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I initially had a problem with the conceit of The Book Thief but ended up really liking it. I think it might be a good transition book from GG.
DebetEsse - Feb 18, 2013 7:02:21 pm PST #20464 of 28358
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Alaska is my least favorite of the 3 John Green books I've read (not to say that it isn't good, just that I liked Paper Towns and Will Grayson better). It's not what one would call a very happy book. More "cathartic", perhaps. I have plans to pick up all the Skullduggery books when I'm in the UK, since there are some that aren't out yet in the US, so I think it's more an issue of "which are you in the mood for?"
Polter-Cow - Feb 18, 2013 9:24:13 pm PST #20465 of 28358
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Five hundred votes for The Book Thief.
Calli - Feb 19, 2013 1:58:14 am PST #20466 of 28358
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I bought the Duane ebook bundle last year, too. I think there was one sort of fundraiser? Anyway, I haven't started them, partially because Mount Toberead is reaching Everest proportions and partially because I'm not sure about the order. Does anyone have a link to a series chronology, please?
Strix - Feb 19, 2013 2:55:41 am PST #20467 of 28358
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
SKULDUGGGERY!
But I am intending to read The Book Thief one of these days.