'First Date'
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."
I cried multiple times. Fawkes bit killed me dead.
I just finished "Fledgling" by Octavia E. Butler. Fun! Anthropological vampire book. Bit creepy at points, with the sexualization of the main character (who happens to be a vampire that looks like an 11-year-old girl. Um.) but generally a neat read.
I like the Harry Potter books, but they don't really push my emotional buttons. Maybe I'm callous and strange.
I sobbed at the end of HBP. I can't imagine what The Deathly Hallows is going to do to me.
No, callous and strange is even asking whether you should attend a wedding on the day of the new HP release. The HP will be there the next day, the wedding won't.
Yeah, but HP7 is an event NINE YEARS in the making! How long have the bride and groom known each other, huh?
HP doesn't make me cry. And I think the Dumbledore thing lost its impact since I was spoiled for it and spent most of the book wanting to get to it to see if it was true or not.
I wasn't spoiled, but I didn't cry, cause I am not that invested. I mean, I want to know what happens, but it's not like Buffy.
I think I laughed and shouted "Hot damn! That's AWESOME! I can't believe she did that!"
I disliked Fledgling. I thought it was very awkward for OEB, and even if I could reliably make the psychological distance so the sex wasn't statutory rape (but it was, wasn't it? Her age in human years shouldn't make the difference, not if she was still a child in vamp years), the relationships smacked too much of culty drug-addict for me to care about any of them.
What I like about OEB is her "great power comes with great compromise and loss" air. Didn't get that feel off Fledgling, and I missed it.
I just want to see what happens to Draco, honestly. And I'd like to see Hermione be proven wrong and Ron to stop whining.
I didn't like Fledgeling, mostly for the reasons ita didn't. I just didn't care about the characters, and the book barely held my interest.
On the other hand, I'm very much emotionally invested in the HP books, and would like the final book right NOW please, thankyouverymuch.
I'm very much emotionally invested in the HP books, and would like the final book right NOW please, thankyouverymuch.
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