I really loved the Montmaray novels: read them all twice over within one twelve-month period.
If that means anything.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Consuela - Feb 18, 2013 6:12:06 pm PST #20461 of 28358
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
dcp - Feb 19, 2013 2:59:35 am PST #20468 of 28358
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Gris - Feb 19, 2013 7:39:48 am PST #20469 of 28358
Hey. New board.
I like them all. Looking for Alaska is not the best John Green, but it was my first and I liked it. The Book Thief is brilliant. Skulduggery is pure fun. So... any of them?
Amy - Feb 19, 2013 7:45:12 am PST #20470 of 28358
Because books.
You people are no help. Or possibly too much help.
I think I'm going to finish Montmaray and then start The Book Thief.
We'll see, anyway.