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Buffy ,'Potential'

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."

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Jessica - Oct 22, 2024 8:19:59 am PDT #28060 of 28175

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The sequels to Gideon the Ninth had some complex timeline and POV issues. But the author built up a lot of trust and goodwill in the first book, so I was willing to trust her in the sequels. I doubt I’d do the same with a new-to-me author.

With both Harrow and Nona, I LOVED the ride I was on even if I was hopelessly lost for a good chunk of the narrative. And I never felt like I was being deliberately misled for the sake of a twist ending (poor Harrow being at least as confused and frustrated as the reader and she had to actually live through the damn book).

-t - Oct 22, 2024 8:37:17 am PDT #28061 of 28175

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Those somehow did not make me feel like I should be working to try to figure out what was going on, I could just go with it. And you're right, Calli, there is a certain amount of trust involved

Calli - Nov 11, 2024 4:18:51 pm PST #28062 of 28175

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark is free for non-UK people. [link]

Jessica - Nov 12, 2024 6:38:37 am PST #28063 of 28175

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Am I about to DNF a 2nd work book club book in a row? We are reading The Hollow Kingdom and....ugh! Everything this book is trying to do I can think of another book that does that thing better.

POV animals and they're on a quest - Watership Down
Random poetic essays about the meaning of life - Space Opera/Space Oddity
Zombie dystopia - okay this one admittedly stumps me because I don't really do zombies, but enough people have recommended Feed I'm gonna say that one

So on the one hand I don't want to finish it but on the other hand I don't want to be the person who noped out of two books in a row either.

Dana - Nov 12, 2024 12:42:47 pm PST #28064 of 28175

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I vote you just reread Watership Down.

bennett - Nov 12, 2024 12:48:07 pm PST #28065 of 28175

I second Dana. Watership Downs is one my comfort reads.

Jessica - Nov 12, 2024 1:11:29 pm PST #28066 of 28175

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Rereading Watership Down is always a good choice (even if I could probably recite most of it from memory!)

-t - Nov 12, 2024 7:11:44 pm PST #28067 of 28175

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I remember liking World War Z

JenP - Nov 15, 2024 12:35:44 pm PST #28068 of 28175

OK! Starting my listen of Abaddon's Gate -- just finished Caliban's War. Thoroughly enjoying!

For those who watched -- what did you think of books v. series? I only saw part of S1, and I'm thinking of revisiting eventually.

dcp - Nov 15, 2024 12:41:46 pm PST #28069 of 28175

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Still haven't read the books. I already have shelves of physical books, lots of Kindle books, and folders of fanfic that I sadly realize I am never going to be able to read through. Oh, well.

In season one of the TV series, they had me hooked at the sparrow in low gravity.

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