Don't I get a cookie?

Spike ,'Never Leave Me'


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 - Nov 20, 2013 6:53:07 am PST #21638 of 28370
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 28370
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 28370
"...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 28370
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 28370
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 28370
"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 28370
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 28370
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 28370
Hey. New board.

I think the later books are higher levels


Kat - Nov 22, 2013 4:28:31 pm PST #21647 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Has anyone read Hild yet? I couldn't put it down. Compelling.