I read the second one first, and eventually drifted away after, um #5? Would not be able to make a good case for sticking with it, honestly - if it's not grabbing you it's not gonna, imo.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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."
-t - Jan 04, 2017 7:23:44 am PST #24274 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
askye - Jan 04, 2017 7:28:51 am PST #24275 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
I liked the Outlander series until ...book 5 I think and then I can't be bothered to read more.
The first book has a lot of set up before they get to the action.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2017 8:12:04 am PST #24276 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How far in are you, and what don't you like about it? I'm in love with the characters enough that I've read the whole series twice plus almost all of the ancillary books (the Lord John Gray series, a few of the novellas).
The audiobooks are spectacular - Davina Winter is just an incredible narrator. However, listening in audio means you can't skip/skim and I've reached the point in my reread (mid book 6) where I'm considering making some of DG's writing habits a drinking game:
-Drink every time someone shivers, despite the temperature of the room/day
-Drink every time someone is eating while receiving bad news, and feels the food turn into a solid ball in their stomach
-Drink twice if it's a ball of ice
-Drink every time Claire mentions that Jamie is tall
-Drink every time Claire describes Jamie's eyelashes
-Drink every time the phrase "long straight nose" appears
-Drink every time the phrase "wide sweet mouth" appears
-Stop reading right now because you have alcohol poisoning
Dragonfly in Amber is easily the weakest of the series - S2 of the show was better.
smonster - Jan 04, 2017 8:28:04 am PST #24277 of 28260
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Jessica, ha!
I forget how far along I've read. Through A Breath of Snow and Ashes, I think? Maybe I'll start a reread, I need some relatively mindless escapism and I'm almost out of Downside Ghost stuff.
Amy - Jan 04, 2017 8:37:53 am PST #24278 of 28260
Because books.
I LOVED Dragonfly in Amber! Or at least I remember loving it. Maybe it was Voyager I loved most.
No drinking every time Jamie says, "Mo ..." whatever word for sweet that is?
smonster - Jan 04, 2017 8:47:09 am PST #24279 of 28260
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Cridhe? (Which autocorrect wanted to make "fridge.")
-t - Jan 04, 2017 8:58:34 am PST #24280 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"Mo fridge" is now my favoritest endearment.
Amy - Jan 04, 2017 8:58:55 am PST #24281 of 28260
Because books.
Aw, you are all mo fridge, for sure.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2017 9:01:49 am PST #24282 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
No, people using the same terms of endearments over and over is just how married people talk. It doesn't ping me in the same way as, say, Claire comparing literally everyone sees for the first time to an unbelievably specific kind of animal. ("so and so was such and such, looking like nothing more than an adolescent koala who has just remembered his grandmother's favorite brand of washing powder.")
Toddson - Jan 04, 2017 9:23:57 am PST #24283 of 28260
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read the first ... four maybe ... of the Outlander books, but got exhausted. Those things are LONG.