And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 - Sep 13, 2013 5:25:38 am PDT #21394 of 28404
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Strix - Sep 13, 2013 8:43:05 am PDT #21395 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So, if I want to check out Gillian Flynn, should I start with Gone Girl?
sj - Sep 13, 2013 8:46:40 am PDT #21396 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Strix, I think Gone Girl is her best book plot wise, but I also really enjoyed her other two books. I read them in the reverse order that she wrote them in.
javachik - Sep 13, 2013 9:22:03 am PDT #21397 of 28404
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, you can read them in any order you want. Enjoy! Or, perhaps, "enjoy" isn't quite the right word.
le nubian - Sep 13, 2013 9:50:42 am PDT #21398 of 28404
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix,
we are your Gone Girl support group. Feel free to start the book and post here your reactions. I am wildly entertained by the reactions. I think smonster (?) read it awhile back and I found it very entertaining.
smonster - Sep 13, 2013 9:58:12 am PDT #21399 of 28404
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
No, not me. I have it on my shelf but haven't read it yet. Been hitting the library hard this summer.
sj - Sep 13, 2013 10:02:02 am PDT #21400 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Possibly it was me, but I am happy to be confused with smonster anytime.
le nubian - Sep 13, 2013 10:06:50 am PDT #21401 of 28404
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sj! dammit. you are right. I knew it was sj.
Strix - Sep 13, 2013 10:12:30 am PDT #21402 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I shall!
Consuela - Sep 14, 2013 7:49:00 am PDT #21403 of 28404
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So last night I read Rose Under Fire, which is Elizabeth Wein's followup to Code Name Verity. And it's really good. And we get to see Maddie again! Spoiler: she married Jamie! So cute.
However the context of the novel is even more grim than CNV: the lead character, Rose Justice, is an American pilot working as an ATA pilot in England just around the time of the Normandy invasion. Through a series of circumstances, she ends up in a German woman's labor camp, Ravensbruck, for the last six months of the war.
It's brilliantly done, but god, it's brutal. And it's basically all true: Wein based the novel on the memoirs of women who survived Ravensbruck to talk (and testify) about it.
I thought it was excellent, but it's pretty hard going at points, even though it's written in the memoir style of CNV, so you get a certain amount of distance from the action because it's being conveyed after the fact by a survivor.
I do recommend it, but not on a day when you're feeling kind of dubious about humanity.