'Dirty Girls'
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."
Right there with you, Tep. I just read the bit where Marcus speaks to the audience and says "You know the timeline, you know what's coming." And I applaud Knut for doing that, but there is dread.
Sort of like in The Poisonwood Bible where you know one of the girls is going to die. Except there you spend your reading time rooting for it to be a particular one (if you are me).
Because I knew (and surely this is no spoiler; we *know* the author, and he wouldn't pull such a hackneyed trick) that nothing corny like the superheroes *stopping* the terrorist attacks would happen.
It doesn't have to be corny.
But then Knut would've run the risk of being called an Ex Machina imitator.
Sort of like in The Poisonwood Bible where you know one of the girls is going to die.
Or like in The Secret History, which just starts flat-out by saying that they kill Bunny, and then takes you up to it, through it, and yet *still* manages to create suspense and dread and such empathy for both Richard et al, AND for Bunny. (Okay, actually I never have any empathy --or symapthy, or any good feeling -- for Bunny, no matter how many times I read it. But still.)
(Also a VERY well-done first novel, IMO. Much like Superpowers, revealing Bunny's murder right up front is a big risk because the payoff *could* have fallen flat. But instead she did it beautifully.)
Sort of like in The Poisonwood Bible where you know one of the girls is going to die.
Seeing Raq mention Poisonwood gets my ire up. That book's last 200 pages felt so terrible extraneous to me. Sigh.
I hated feeling the dread,but somehow I didn't at the same time. And Jack's aging felt even worse because I knew what was happening soon. Just a perfect feeling of never enough, and what does matter
But I'm still very tangled up in Superpowers. Reading it around July 4th was fitting.
That book's last 200 pages felt so terrible extraneous to me. Sigh.
That's my favorite part of the whole book! I loved reading about the sisters' lives as they grew up. It does feel like a separate book, but to me it's the more interesting one.
Via the Smart Bitches, Big Spankable Asses won the worst cover contest.
Via the Smart Bitches, Big Spankable Asses won the worst cover contest.
YAY!!!
YAY BSA!!!
OK, I finished Superpowers. I had to lock myself in the bathroom at home, and then sit in the parking lot at work to read, but I couldn't stop. Bravo!
Via the Smart Bitches, Big Spankable Asses won the worst cover contest.
I'm so proud.
I now am in possession of Knut's book. Looking forward to getting to it. I'd love to have a drive-by post by the guy.