She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.

Spike ,'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."


erikaj - Mar 24, 2006 5:20:27 am PST #237 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

OMG... Of course Sherman Alexie's "Indian Killer" guarantees I see Hillerman as an insecure, wanna-be bedwetter because that's what his Hillerman-type is like...it really has influenced my view of him. What's a tango pirate?


Beverly - Mar 24, 2006 6:25:06 am PST #238 of 28061
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

What's a tango pirate?

Like a stevedore. Only with a rose in his teeth.


erikaj - Mar 24, 2006 6:53:51 am PST #239 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

it would be hard to resist that.


§ ita § - Mar 24, 2006 7:33:43 am PST #240 of 28061
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And better footwork.


Strega - Mar 24, 2006 9:42:08 am PST #241 of 28061

Some of the tango pirates were really privateers for the dancing queen.


EpicTangent - Mar 24, 2006 1:35:16 pm PST #242 of 28061
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Some of the tango pirates were really privateers for the dancing queen.

BWAH!


meara - Mar 25, 2006 11:49:15 am PST #243 of 28061

OK, I know a lot of you like the Honor Harrington books. I've been feeling in a very space-opera mood lately, and picked up the first one at the used bookstore the other day, just cracked it open.

Someone please tell me it gets better. I mean, I'm only ten pages in, but...dude. Empathic tree cat? Seriously?


DXMachina - Mar 25, 2006 11:56:47 am PST #244 of 28061
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Someone please tell me it gets better. I mean, I'm only ten pages in, but...dude. Empathic tree cat? Seriously?

Intelligent empathic tree cat...

The first book isn't too bad. I think the second is better.


Jessica - Mar 25, 2006 12:48:58 pm PST #245 of 28061
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I mean, I'm only ten pages in, but...dude. Empathic tree cat? Seriously?

Yeah, that's about as far as I got before I decided I'd be better off just rereading the Vorkosigan series.


Sheryl - Mar 25, 2006 4:49:05 pm PST #246 of 28061
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Oddly, the tree cat didn't bother me. It was the pages and pages of description of battle maneuvers that led me to decide I didn't have any interest in reading the rest of the series.