Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.

'Objects In Space'


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."


sumi - Sep 16, 2007 5:45:16 pm PDT #3858 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!

PC - where on that website is that information?

I'm trying to get into it - I sent the link to friends who are fans but I'm not finding the announcement at all and I'm having a great deal of difficulty getting on the page and when I do - I don't see the announcement.


Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2007 5:54:00 pm PDT #3859 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Huh, you're right, it's not loading. Probably getting way too many hits. It was a blog post by someone close to him, I think, who'd been posting about him.

Here's a report.


sumi - Sep 16, 2007 6:07:04 pm PDT #3860 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!

Thanks - I'll send that link too.


§ ita § - Sep 16, 2007 6:45:00 pm PDT #3861 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is the series done? I tried to read one of them, after having read (but not enjoyed, I just had to) the first five or so. And it was unintelligible and the main people were otherwise occupied.


Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2007 9:01:38 pm PDT #3862 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

No, he was trying to finish the final volume, however long it was going to end up being.


§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 5:43:31 am PDT #3863 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Huh.

It's weird--it feels like people are dying left, right, and centre. But really, it's just the passage of time and getting older.

His fans must be in all sorts of tizzies. I don't know a damned thing about his presence, just of his works. But I imagine they might feel like I felt when Octavia Butler died. I just hope they don't have a Fledgling left behind. That stung.


sumi - Sep 17, 2007 5:51:33 am PDT #3864 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah, one of my friends said that "selfishly" she hopes that his wife finishes the book.


Dana - Sep 17, 2007 7:32:01 am PDT #3865 of 28212
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I'm sure someone will finish the book.


Atropa - Sep 17, 2007 9:30:05 am PDT #3866 of 28212
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Someone remind me that if I've read a book, wasn't that impressed with it, and now cannot remember most of the plot points, I should not be tempted to go read it again AND the two sequels, just because a bunch of people I know thought they were great? I know I was pretty "meh" on Twilight, I even threadsucked this thread and re-read comments), but ... I keep reading enthusiastic burbling about the three books everywhere. I haven't caved yet, but I can feel myself wavering.


Susan W. - Sep 17, 2007 9:51:37 am PDT #3867 of 28212
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Jilli, life is too short, and if you're anything like me, there are too many interesting books/series you haven't tried yet for you to waste your time forcing yourself through something just because other people enjoy it.

ETA of course there ARE exceptions. I'm glad I gave the Aubrey/Maturin series a second chance, because now I love those books beyond reason. But I can't think of any other books where the second read was vastly different from the first except when I'd changed, and that's big picture changes like enjoying books as an adult that I didn't get as a teen.