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Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!

'Potential'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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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Kathy A - Oct 24, 2007 6:39:59 am PDT #4206 of 28235

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My favorite books to buy for new baby showers are Tuesday by David Wiesner and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.

Tuesday is told with almost all pictures (there's a grand total of about ten words throughout the story), and it's about the Tuesday that the frogs flew on their lilypads through a subdivision. Hilarious drawings!

And The True Story of the Three Little Pigs is told from the wolf's perspective--he was just trying to borrow a cup of sugar, but they got all hostile.

Toddson - Oct 24, 2007 6:42:04 am PDT #4207 of 28235

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

oooooh - the art in Tuesday is amazing!

Amy - Oct 24, 2007 6:55:00 am PDT #4208 of 28235

Because books.

And The True Story of the Three Little Pigs is told from the wolf's perspective--he was just trying to borrow a cup of sugar, but they got all hostile.

This book is awesome. So funny.

Ginger - Oct 24, 2007 7:10:13 am PDT #4209 of 28235

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Is there no Pat the Squid?

Liese S. - Oct 24, 2007 11:19:38 am PDT #4210 of 28235

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I told you about this, right? That when I was little I thought it was a bunny. Named Pat?

'Cause I did.

sumi - Oct 25, 2007 4:16:28 am PDT #4211 of 28235

Art Crawl!!!

I heard this on NPR and now I MUST have this book and an audio book with Steve Martin reading would not be remiss either.

Amy - Oct 31, 2007 7:03:42 am PDT #4212 of 28235

Because books.

A little Halloween topic, just out of curiosity:

Can anyone think of any mainstream-successful female horror writers aside from Anne Rice? (It took me a while to come up with her, because I tend to classify vampire fiction as distinct from horror the way Stephen King and Peter Straub write it, although I'm not sure why.)

I know there must be female horror writers out there, writing the kind of genre books that don't hit the bestseller lists (the same way I write low to midlist romance, and no one know who the hell I am except, like, my mom and my husband), but I can't think of any who have hit it really big. Am I missing people?

Dana - Oct 31, 2007 7:05:39 am PDT #4213 of 28235

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Laurell K. Hamilton? Though if she's classified as horror, it might be for unintentional reasons. And that's still vampire fiction.

Amy - Oct 31, 2007 7:06:48 am PDT #4214 of 28235

Because books.

Yeah, I forgot about her, too. And even there, she's got a big "Vampire Fiction" tag in my head. I don't know why it's different, but I can't seem to shake that classification.

Dana - Oct 31, 2007 7:09:06 am PDT #4215 of 28235

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't know why it's different, but I can't seem to shake that classification.

Because you can write about vampires without it being a horror story?

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