You know, I'm trying to stick to a budget, and I don't *need* this, strictly speaking, but I think you will all understand that this t-shirt needed to be mine.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2008 5:42:36 pm PDT #6722 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
meara - Jul 15, 2008 9:28:03 pm PDT #6723 of 28384
I saw Connie Willis tonight! She read from her unfinished book. Yay, hearing something new. BOO, book that is still not done!! Sigh.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2008 3:02:00 am PDT #6724 of 28384
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tep, that shirt rocks.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 4:50:42 am PDT #6725 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tep, that shirt rocks.
Somewhere in the comments section for that shirt, the designer lists all the authors who are on the shirt. I couldn't identify them all on my laptop screen (too small), but you bet that's the first thing I'm going to do when it lands on my doorstep.
JZ - Jul 16, 2008 9:07:03 am PDT #6726 of 28384
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Man, if that shirt weren't yellow...
You, however, will rock it.
I can't even say why I love this one so much, but oh, I do.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 10:43:46 am PDT #6727 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, if that shirt weren't yellow...
I dislike yellow, and I don't own *anything* in that color. I think it makes me look sallow. But I wanted the shirt really badly, and the design takes up such a large part of the shirt that I figured I could deal with the yellow.
t /not here
le nubian - Jul 16, 2008 12:19:16 pm PDT #6728 of 28384
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix - Jul 16, 2008 6:41:13 pm PDT #6729 of 28384
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
yellow makes me look like cat vomit, but I love that shirt, Tep!!
why are all cute reading shirts yellow? GREEN is much more literary. It's the color of...alphabet neurons?
Yeah, I dunno.
Steph L. - Jul 18, 2008 5:31:29 am PDT #6730 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I finished Skulduggery Pleasant this morning -- it's pretty good! One of the review snippets on the back cover calls it a "new genre -- screwball fantasy," and that's not far off. The comparisons to the Harry Potter books are inevitable, and it does have *some* similarities, most notably the existence of the magical world right under the noses of the non-magic people. But beyond that, there really aren't any other striking similarities.
It's got a lot of elements in common with the Kiki Strike books, actually, perhaps a TINY dash of Buffy, and the title character (although he's a skeleton) reminds me of no one more than Remington Steele. Seriously.
It's fun -- I think Buffistas would like it. There's a sequel, which I just started.
Oh, also -- in the first book, the primary baddie's weapon of choice is some weird power where his all he has to do is point his right hand, which is all skinless and red and gross, at a person/creature, and they die a gruesome, agonizing death.
Its name? The Red Right Hand. (The character who wielded it did NOT, unfortunately, have a soundtrack playing whenever he did battle. [And I have no doubt that the author name it that deliberately.])
(Oh yes, I laughed my ass off at that.)
Calli - Jul 25, 2008 11:23:30 am PDT #6731 of 28384
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Late to the party, but I loved Sunshine. I recommended it to my bookgroup who aren't, on the whole, enamored with vampire novels or post-apocalyptic SF/fantasy. They adored it.