Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.

'Out Of Gas'


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."


Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 11:19:41 am PDT #26813 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

So with that extension, it IS "duck"?


-t - Jul 20, 2021 11:20:48 am PDT #26814 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

No, it’s fork


-t - Jul 20, 2021 11:21:08 am PDT #26815 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Forking ducks


-t - Jul 20, 2021 12:38:01 pm PDT #26816 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Do I want to read Lord Foul's Bane? It's marked down to $2.99 and I recognize the title as Something I've Heard Of but that's about it.


Dana - Jul 20, 2021 12:53:43 pm PDT #26817 of 27912
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I would not recommend it, personally. It's very Sad White Guy and his Important Problems.


-t - Jul 20, 2021 12:55:10 pm PDT #26818 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That is kind of what I suspected, thank you for confirming


Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 2:21:21 pm PDT #26819 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm pretty sure I read most of that series (if it's the one I'm thinking of ... possibly another by the same author). Offhand, I'd say avoid it.


Dana - Jul 20, 2021 3:12:24 pm PDT #26820 of 27912
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I feel like Jessica might have opinions about it? Or has read it more recently than I? I just remember that the dude starts with leprosy and gets more depressed from there.


Cashmere - Jul 20, 2021 5:06:39 pm PDT #26821 of 27912
Now tagless for your comfort.

Spoiler Alert was a treat, and it's getting a sequel later this year!

YAY! I loved it. I need to go pre-order the sequel. It definitely hit me in a fandom way, sort of like William Gibson's Pattern Recognition did.

I just discovered THIS and can't wait to order the audiobook. YUMMY!

I just finished the audio for Winter's Orbit and am totally in love. I read the book but picked up the audio when I found out that the narrator worked on Alexis Hall's For Real and his voice is like buuuuuuuuutttter.


Calli - Jul 21, 2021 12:26:22 pm PDT #26822 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Lord Foul's Bane

Oh, yeah, that guy. I picked it up back when I was reluctant to not finish a book. I did not finish it. Picture Heinlein if he wrote in fantasy instead of SF and made whining his narrative mode of choice.