Goodreads fits the rewards center of my brain. I love checking my stats and having that record of what I read, when.
I'm just trying to tell you that we have nothing in common besides both of us liking your penis.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
aurelia - Jul 22, 2021 3:57:40 pm PDT #26833 of 27913
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Consuela - Jul 23, 2021 10:49:34 am PDT #26834 of 27913
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read a ton of Donaldson back in high school, when there was actually not that much FSF to read. Don't read it: the hero is a rapist (this is not a spoiler, he does it almost first thing). The narrative is nihilistic and there's nobody to root for. I have no recollection if the writing itself is any good, but there are far more cheerful things to read nowadays.
Dana - Jul 23, 2021 11:20:38 am PDT #26835 of 27913
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I have that duology of his where a woman is taken to a world on the other side of a mirror, which I used to really like and am now afraid to reread.
Pix - Jul 23, 2021 2:53:57 pm PDT #26836 of 27913
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
This here is why I gave up my paper journal and opened a Goodreads acct.
Epic is me. With the Kindle integration, it's SO EASY.
EpicTangent - Jul 23, 2021 3:00:03 pm PDT #26837 of 27913
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I have that duology of his where a woman is taken to a world on the other side of a mirror, which I used to really like and am now afraid to reread.
You reminded me of how I used to enjoy Piers Anthony. (I feel like I miss problem stuff quite a bit, so 20 years ago or so when I first realized that Anthony was Problematic, I was even more clueless. And yet recognized he had ISSUES). So, for the sake of argument, I asked Google. Rest assured, STILL A PROBLEM.
Dana - Jul 23, 2021 3:15:05 pm PDT #26838 of 27913
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I think many of us had that moment with Piers Anthony.
-t - Jul 23, 2021 3:20:03 pm PDT #26839 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah. Sort of a series of moments of increasing badness.
EpicTangent - Jul 23, 2021 4:23:08 pm PDT #26840 of 27913
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Honestly, I Googled in the hopes that maybe someone gently pointed out to him that his books were coming across as kinda pedophilic and he maybe mended his ways. But no, doubling down was, apparently, his path. *shudder*
-t - Jul 23, 2021 4:59:40 pm PDT #26841 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I remember thinking "I don't think I want to read this series anymore" and later "I don't want to read his stuff anymore" and later still "I don't want to remember his stuff anymore" and now I cringe a little seeing his name mentioned.
EpicTangent - Jul 23, 2021 8:03:43 pm PDT #26842 of 27913
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
From my Googling, I apparently got out before things got REALLY troubling. But even the articles about the worst of them make me wish for brain bleach.