My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


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."


Toddson - Jul 22, 2013 12:59:53 pm PDT #21149 of 28377
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Diana Wynne Jones?


§ ita § - Jul 22, 2013 1:01:27 pm PDT #21150 of 28377
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Earthsea?


hippocampus - Jul 22, 2013 1:10:07 pm PDT #21151 of 28377
not your mom's socks.

Seconding Tiffany Aching. Also Jessica Day George, maybe. Possibly Douglas Adams?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2013 1:10:25 pm PDT #21152 of 28377
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy?


WindSparrow - Jul 22, 2013 1:46:58 pm PDT #21153 of 28377
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Seconding the McCaffrey.


Amy - Jul 22, 2013 1:49:40 pm PDT #21154 of 28377
Because books.

Oh! Lois Duncan! They reissued most of them -- Down a Dark Hall is my personal favorite, but there are a bunch of thrillery sort of mysteries she might like.


EpicTangent - Jul 22, 2013 1:51:43 pm PDT #21155 of 28377
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Ooh, seconding Lois Duncan! Loved her!


Amy - Jul 22, 2013 1:54:22 pm PDT #21156 of 28377
Because books.

I can't find my original, hardback copy of Down a Dark Hall and it kills me. Mostly because I would love to reread it. I LOVE Lois Duncan.


sumi - Jul 25, 2013 10:12:04 am PDT #21157 of 28377
Art Crawl!!!

Tor is featuring previews of the new collection Dangerous Women - edited by G.R.R. M. and Gardner Dozois and featuring stories from a number of authors including: Jim Butcher, Diane Gabaldon and G.R.R.M.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 29, 2013 4:17:56 am PDT #21158 of 28377
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

OK, I'm now halfway through Midnight Blue-Light Special (I loved Discount Armageddon), and loving this one too, and now I REALLY want Guillermo del Toro to turn the Verity Price books into a cable series. Like he isn't busy enough already (he had SIX upcoming things according to IMDB, although one was a rumored Hellboy 3).