Ok, so I just finished Parasite, and I have an "ask the audience" question. At the end, Sal's all "Oh my god, a worm is driving this meat suit" And I'm like, "Lady, I've known that since page 4." Is that just me? Was it supposed to be at all suspenseful, or was it a literary exercise in a journey from denial to acceptance of self-as-other?
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
DebetEsse - May 12, 2017 6:08:04 pm PDT #24560 of 28232
Woe to the fucking wicked.
aurelia - May 12, 2017 8:59:25 pm PDT #24561 of 28232
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
DebetEsse, I guess the latter? Maybe? That seemed to be the continuing trajectory. That whole trilogy was really not up to the level of the Newsflesh series.
hippocampus - May 13, 2017 10:11:58 am PDT #24562 of 28232
not your mom's socks.
Consuela I cannot wait to read that
DebetEsse - May 13, 2017 10:29:09 am PDT #24563 of 28232
Woe to the fucking wicked.
aurelia, I'm only a little into the second book, but it does feel like it's more pages than the story thus far justifies.
Pix - May 13, 2017 11:31:51 am PDT #24564 of 28232
The status is NOT quo.
Honestly, Debet, I didn't pick up on that reveal for some time, honestly, though I had figured it out by the end.
-t - May 13, 2017 11:50:53 am PDT #24565 of 28232
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And Amy's extension tells me that I can put Murderbot Diaries on hold at the library, 3rd in queue. Technology, sometimes you are all right.
DebetEsse - May 13, 2017 11:52:53 am PDT #24566 of 28232
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Interesting, Pix. I think it was the they tried to give me anti-parasitics and I nearly died, and then they did it again and I nearly died again that made me pretty sure. That and the warm, hot dark.
Consuela - May 13, 2017 2:37:59 pm PDT #24567 of 28232
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I finished the Murderbot story last night and my only complaint is that it's TOO SHORT. Apparently she has 2 more in the works, and may published them all together in a hard copy version.
sumi - May 15, 2017 3:31:06 pm PDT #24568 of 28232
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - May 15, 2017 4:00:31 pm PDT #24569 of 28232
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not a single bookstore listed in the Bay Area?! Boo!