Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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."


Dana - Mar 09, 2018 5:45:46 pm PST #24968 of 28762
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

We talked about the movie version of The Girl With All the Gifts in Movies.


Kate P. - Mar 10, 2018 3:17:41 pm PST #24969 of 28762
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Yeah, the part where Roxy's dad transplants her skein into her brother was horrifying and made me so angry. Although at least the brother does get a satisfyingly awful comeuppance.


EpicTangent - Mar 11, 2018 9:11:03 pm PDT #24970 of 28762
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

We talked about the movie version of The Girl With All the Gifts in Movies.

That must be it, thanks!


Consuela - Mar 12, 2018 5:40:28 pm PDT #24971 of 28762
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

OK, so this 17776 thing is kinda cool. (Just started it.)


Amy - Mar 12, 2018 5:58:17 pm PDT #24972 of 28762
Because books.

Found a Hamilton shoutout in a Tessa Dare romance. Delightful!


Dana - Mar 15, 2018 10:29:40 am PDT #24973 of 28762
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

For anyone who likes Ellis Peters, the books in her George Felse series are on sale for $1.99 to $2.99 at Amazon. At least, I assume that's a sale price. Regardless, they're well worth it.

[link]


-t - Mar 15, 2018 12:54:06 pm PDT #24974 of 28762
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks! I think I finally read all of the Cadfael books, did not know about these.


-t - Mar 17, 2018 5:38:09 am PDT #24975 of 28762
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Secret message to Jesse:

My beard had been permanently depilated before I left Ollul

The Left Hand of Darkness pg 55


Jesse - Mar 17, 2018 5:45:05 am PDT #24976 of 28762
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

THANK YOU!

Relatedly, Slate had a podcast recently about that book, and I was thrilled that the first thing Charlie Jane Anders said was how much the main character sucks.


-t - Mar 17, 2018 6:16:32 am PDT #24977 of 28762
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He's a 23 year old bundle of toxic masculinity trying really hard to convince himself he's objective. He has that one moment towards the end (which I cannot find now to quote exactly or to see who he was talking about) where he says something like "I didn't see a man, I didn't see a woman, I saw a person" and the only thing I can think is "Finally! Was that so hard?"