Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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."


Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2008 10:48:53 pm PDT #6578 of 28379
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

thinks it kicks ass right up until the end, which he hated.

Someone put together a fake ending that's pretty damn cool. He might like that one more.


Anne W. - Jun 27, 2008 1:14:22 am PDT #6579 of 28379
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Someone put together a fake ending that's pretty damn cool.

Ooh? I haven't reached the end yet (although I'm somewhat spoiled), but I'd love a link to that for future reference.


Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2008 6:13:12 am PDT #6580 of 28379
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

The pages are here.


sumi - Jun 27, 2008 6:27:14 am PDT #6581 of 28379
Art Crawl!!!

Tor Books has this new thing where you sign up to get a newsletter and a free book download.


megan walker - Jun 27, 2008 6:46:42 am PDT #6582 of 28379
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

The United States of Arugula has moved on to Alice Waters. It's not pretty.


Steph L. - Jun 27, 2008 8:55:32 am PDT #6583 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

thinks it kicks ass right up until the end, which he hated.

Someone put together a fake ending that's pretty damn cool. He might like that one more.

I told him, but he says he doesn't want to read it if it's "not real."

But *I* bookmarked your post for future reference.


Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2008 9:21:34 am PDT #6584 of 28379
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I thought the real ending was fine, slick and appropriate. But the fake ending is perhaps more along the lines of what I had been expecting. I...possibly would have loved the series more if it had ended that way?


Anne W. - Jun 27, 2008 1:14:09 pm PDT #6585 of 28379
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Many thanks, PC.

BTW, I still owe you a writeup of the Percy Jackson series. I think you'd really like it. I hope to get to that this weekend.


sumi - Jun 28, 2008 6:41:22 pm PDT #6586 of 28379
Art Crawl!!!

Edgar Awards:

Best novel: Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Best first novel by an American author: In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking
Best Paperback original: Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Best critical/biographical: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
Best Fact Crime: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company
Best Short Story: "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)
Best Young Adult: Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)
Best Juvenile: The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
Best Play: Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
Best Television episode teleplay: "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)
Best motion picture screenplay: Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
The Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
Grand Master: Bill Pronzini
Raven Awards:Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and Kate's Mystery Books (Kate Mattes, owner)


Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2008 7:29:03 pm PDT #6587 of 28379
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Mary Higgins Clark has an award named after her? Huh. I went through a Mary Higgins Clark phase in junior high.