Gunn: You saying popping mama threw you a beating? Lorne: Kid Vicious did the heavy lifting. Cordy just mwah-ha-ha'd at us.

'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."


§ ita § - Apr 03, 2013 1:10:43 pm PDT #20582 of 28367
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You have to respect a guy who proposed by asking his significant other if she'd do him the honour of being his widow.

I like his books too, but...that just made things extra real.


le nubian - Apr 03, 2013 3:12:14 pm PDT #20583 of 28367
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

He is married to her now (note: not THE Adele, but another Adéle).


Amy - Apr 03, 2013 5:41:46 pm PDT #20584 of 28367
Because books.

Booklamp, a Pandora-like book rec engine.


Polter-Cow - Apr 03, 2013 5:58:20 pm PDT #20585 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Interesting! I'll have to play around with that. Not that I need more book recommendations, just to see what it does.


EpicTangent - Apr 04, 2013 8:05:29 am PDT #20586 of 28367
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Fun concept, but definitely still needs work. Took me 3 tries to get it to recognize a book, then the suggestions weren't all that. Hopefully, it's one of those things that learns as it gets used.


le nubian - Apr 04, 2013 8:09:45 am PDT #20587 of 28367
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

What ET said.

The site didn't recognize the last 3 books I read. Which actually gave me a bit of a complex.


EpicTangent - Apr 04, 2013 8:38:20 am PDT #20588 of 28367
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Okay, tried again, using le n's "last 3" model. Did much better - current book recognized and other books in same series recommended; didn't get 3rd Montmaray book, but had the first 2; got the recent Niffenegger, though I'm not sure about the recs.

So maybe it is learning...or my last 3 books are less obscure than my first sample (though really, the one it didn't recognize was Time Traveler's Wife - it got Her Fearful Symmetry, but not Niffenegger's actually famous, made into a movie book?)


le nubian - Apr 04, 2013 9:00:48 am PDT #20589 of 28367
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Is anyone here reading Scalzi's "The Human Division?"


hippocampus - Apr 04, 2013 9:59:50 am PDT #20590 of 28367
not your mom's socks.

A friend is, le n - she's blogging it at [link]


DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 6:51:25 am PDT #20591 of 28367
Woe to the fucking wicked.

So, I've started House of Leaves. I'm only a couple chapters in, but I get the feeling that this might not be good bedtime reading because of the creepy. At the same time, I don't want to not read it because it's really good and hits a number of my favorite things in stories (unreliable narrator! Layers of meta-story! Living with ambiguity! Fake reality!)