I feel like I get them more from written but that is possibly because that is what I am more likely to stay up late to consume...
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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 - Oct 05, 2023 2:17:00 pm PDT #27742 of 28031
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - Oct 06, 2023 5:54:33 am PDT #27743 of 28031
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I noped out of T. Kingfisher's sequel to The Twisted Ones and have sworn off horror, although I did read her House with Good Bones, which I found creepy but not terrifying.
sj - Oct 06, 2023 11:40:55 am PDT #27744 of 28031
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There's a sequel to the Twisted Ones?
Toddson - Oct 06, 2023 1:07:02 pm PDT #27745 of 28031
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm not sure if it's an actual sequel, but it's another horror novel from T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places.
sj - Oct 07, 2023 9:41:03 am PDT #27746 of 28031
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Same tone but not connected. I’ve read them both.
dcp - Oct 08, 2023 5:30:29 pm PDT #27747 of 28031
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
Copperbadge is releasing a new story in the Shivadhverse. If the 'verse is new to you, I highly recommend it. Fun stuff. [link]
Latest story is: [link]
-t - Oct 12, 2023 10:01:31 am PDT #27748 of 28031
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Would discussion of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story go here? Audiobook, right?
I tried listening in the car on the the way to work this morning but it was too hard to hear the dialog over the background noise. I'll have to try later with headphones. But I'm excited!
Consuela - Oct 12, 2023 9:14:14 pm PDT #27749 of 28031
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am most of the way through Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrot, which was written in the late 1920s, and it's SO GOOD y'all. Highly recommended.
-t - Oct 18, 2023 4:16:25 pm PDT #27750 of 28031
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Listened to a lot of audiobooks while driving hither and yon, and now I have opinions. I did not quite like Slayers as much as I wanted to - it's not wrong and bad, but I just couldn't get on board with Anya and Anyanka being separate entities, and Tara having what amounted to two personalities which is really too bad because the basic premise of an alternate universe where we can follow characters who died on Buffy is a good one! Definitely nice to listen to the actors again.
I did like Third Eye, a Felicia Day thing playing around with the Chosen One idea. There's something particularly enjoyable about Neil Gaiman reading Felicia Day's words in the first person.
And I was utterly charmed by Starter Villain. I haven't read much Scalzi - for quite a while I would come across one of his essays or the like on the interwebs and think I should read him but then perusing the titles and synopses that were available I somehow never did. There was an Audible series that I gave a chance to and enjoyed well enough, but not enough to make me start following him seriously. Audible has been pushing me to listen to Starter Villain, though, and there's a cat on the cover, so I was willing and this one I like very much.
And I gave the full-cast version of All Systems Red a listen. I don't think I like it as much as the straight audiobook? It's shorter, for one thing, which is weird. I had a feeling that the dramatization aspect would take away from the sense of being so much in Murderbot's head, but I don't think it was actually a problem. Kinda want to listen to the book while it's fresh in my head and figure out how I feel about both of them
Toddson - Oct 19, 2023 5:56:45 am PDT #27751 of 28031
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t, I want to read Starter Villain (the cat alone would tempt me). If you haven't, I can recommend The Kaiju Preservation Society.