Occasionally I'm callous and strange.

Willow ,'The Killer In 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."


Pix - May 16, 2014 4:07:10 am PDT #22369 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.

I've already burned through the first four. So fun!


WindSparrow - May 16, 2014 4:46:25 am PDT #22370 of 28344
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.

I started in the middle because I was browsing at the library and found myself unable to walk past a book entitled "The Last Camel Died At Noon". I wasn't wrong. Then I went back to the beginning. There are some of the later books I haven't read yet.


DavidS - May 16, 2014 7:20:28 am PDT #22371 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

They're a lot of fun! I stopped after the 6th because I was getting a little burned out, but I need to pick them back up again.

Diminishing returns in the later books, from what I've heard. Though I haven't read them myself it did sound like the series exhausted itself.


-t - May 16, 2014 7:21:32 am PDT #22372 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I just kind of lost interest in that series, eventually, but I don't know whether that was me or them, really.


Steph L. - May 16, 2014 7:34:06 am PDT #22373 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I just kind of lost interest in that series, eventually, but I don't know whether that was me or them, really.

That makes me feel better.

Unrelatedly, my dear -t, you do know the last Skulduggery Pleasant book is out at the end of August, right? And its title is "The Dying of the Light."

OH GOD MY HEART. I'm still not over "Last Stand of Dead Men." It's the only Skulduggery book that I haven't yet re-read.


-t - May 16, 2014 7:59:55 am PDT #22374 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thank you, I did not! I was just thinking I needed to check on that. Better get my pre-order taken care of soon...

I am afraid of what might happen in that book but I CANNOT WAIT to find out.


Steph L. - May 16, 2014 8:09:14 am PDT #22375 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm not sure he can stomp on my heart more than he already has. And yet, I feel sure that he will.

(We included a Skulduggery Pleasant quote in our wedding vows -- seriously -- and I can't decide if sending Derek Landy a note to tell him that would be cool or CREEPY AS SHIT.)


-t - May 16, 2014 8:10:30 am PDT #22376 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You could do it so it wouldn't be creepy, I think. Because it's awesome!

I'm not sure he can stomp on my heart more than he already has. And yet, I feel sure that he will.

That sums it up so well.


Steph L. - May 16, 2014 8:17:27 am PDT #22377 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

You could do it so it wouldn't be creepy, I think. Because it's awesome!

It was from Dark Days, I think, and it's dialogue between Valkyrie and Skulduggery:

V: “I’m here because I CHOOSE to be. You save my life. I save yours. That’s how we work.”
S: “Until the end.”
V: “Until the end.”

In this case, I was Valkyrie and Tim was Skuldggery. (He did NOT do the Skulduggery voice -- which, if you haven't heard the audiobooks, is deep and resonant, about an octave below Tim's normal voice, which he actually does extremely well.)

t edit We didn't identify it as a quote, or anything, so people might have thought it was just me being dramatic, but I don't really care. And, you know, Skulduggery Pleasant wedding vows FTW.


-t - May 16, 2014 8:22:35 am PDT #22378 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Excellent vows.