You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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 - Jul 23, 2021 4:59:40 pm PDT #26841 of 27912
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 27912
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.


meara - Jul 23, 2021 9:15:46 pm PDT #26843 of 27912

I don’t think I even want to know how troubling things got. I enjoyed one or two of his series but doubt I can reread them now. And even then remember the Xanth series as like “wait, what the…”


Sophia Brooks - Jul 24, 2021 6:19:34 am PDT #26844 of 27912
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yes, I did enjoy the wordplay in his books, and also that a woman could be king, not queen, but then PROBLEMS. Which are probably signaled by the self centered nature of Piers Anthony (if you say it real fast) forming the word Xanth.


shrift - Jul 24, 2021 3:00:25 pm PDT #26845 of 27912
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm glad Consuela was here to give her opinion of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I read those Donaldson books when I was working through the entire fantasy & science fiction section of my small town library. If anyone told me those were their favorite books, I would consider that a giant red flag and block them in real life. A world of no.


Consuela - Jul 24, 2021 11:29:05 pm PDT #26846 of 27912
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

A world of no.
indeed.


Toddson - Jul 27, 2021 10:53:58 am PDT #26847 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is $1.99 on Amazon in case you haven't read it (I must confess that I haven't ... yet).


Laura - Jul 27, 2021 11:15:48 am PDT #26848 of 27912
Our wings are not tired.

I did enjoy that one, Todd.


-t - Jul 27, 2021 12:28:50 pm PDT #26849 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's a lot of book for $2


hippocampus - Jul 27, 2021 1:29:45 pm PDT #26850 of 27912
not your mom's socks.

Friends, a favor: Say I'm actually taking the much-much-much-needed vacation. Rec me a book you think I'd like?