Amy,
I agree with you. I kind of feel like I didn't like Collins' writing to bring us to that point though.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
le nubian - Nov 19, 2013 2:57:00 pm PST #21637 of 28635
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela - Nov 20, 2013 6:53:07 am PST #21638 of 28635
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Every single death in A Song of Ice and Fire: [link]
hippocampus - Nov 20, 2013 7:32:51 am PST #21639 of 28635
not your mom's socks.
beat me to it, Consuela. That is amazing.
In other (less deadly) books, I interviewed the author of A River of No Return about time travel and food today: [link]
chrismg - Nov 21, 2013 10:18:59 am PST #21640 of 28635
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
This is interesting - some simple textual analysis of the Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Twilight series, giving the most distinctive adjectives, adverbs, and sentences are. There's not much that's surprising, but I thought it funny what Suzanne Collins' most common adjective is.
Polter-Cow - Nov 21, 2013 11:21:39 am PST #21641 of 28635
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love Meyer's list of most common sentences.
Amy - Nov 21, 2013 11:39:28 am PST #21642 of 28635
Because books.
I'll admit I skimmed -- did they level each author at all? Reading level, I mean? That would have been interesting to see.
le nubian - Nov 21, 2013 12:36:41 pm PST #21643 of 28635
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
One of the commenters took offense to the lumping in of these three books together. I actually agree with some of her points.
Strix - Nov 22, 2013 4:16:59 am PST #21644 of 28635
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
did they level each author at all? Reading level, I mean? That would have been interesting to see.
They didn't, but...
THG: 7 T: 4.4 HPatPS:5.3
Amy - Nov 22, 2013 7:25:49 am PST #21645 of 28635
Because books.
I'm surprised Harry Potter isn't higher than that, based on the vocabulary.
Gris - Nov 22, 2013 2:12:03 pm PST #21646 of 28635
Hey. New board.
I think the later books are higher levels