Oh, man. I have no intention of reading the sparkly sparkly thing, but Cleolinda is totally making my day.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
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."
amych - Aug 05, 2008 5:07:21 am PDT #6764 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jesse - Aug 05, 2008 5:51:48 am PDT #6765 of 28385
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, we have a 14-year-old intern here who said she's into the Twilight thing. Of course I was like, "Isn't that about vampires? And they're sparkly or something?" She looked at me like I was not only ancient, but also on crack. Do the vampires not actual sparkle?
sj - Aug 05, 2008 5:55:00 am PDT #6766 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Do the vampires not actual sparkle?
In the sunlight rather than burning up, they sparkle.
Hayden - Aug 05, 2008 5:56:44 am PDT #6767 of 28385
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
In the world of me, I've just read and adored Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell.
I loved the holy hell out of this book. Black Swan Green is also delightful, although you should be forewarned that it's more of a straightforward narrative.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 05, 2008 5:58:24 am PDT #6768 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In the sunlight rather than burning up, they sparkle.
Is there any downside to being a vampire in this verse?
Jesse - Aug 05, 2008 5:59:51 am PDT #6769 of 28385
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I knew there had to be actual sparkling!!
lisah - Aug 05, 2008 6:02:49 am PDT #6770 of 28385
Punishingly Intricate
Black Swan Green is also delightful, although you should be forewarned that it's more of a straightforward narrative.
I like a straightforward narrative!
Fay - Aug 05, 2008 6:06:43 am PDT #6771 of 28385
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
They do indeed sparkle. God help us. That's why they don't go out in direct sunlight - because their twinklywinklysparklywarkly marble skin would be too glitteringly obvious.
sighs.
If she's into Twilight, she should check out Holly Black, Cassandra Clare (yes, that one) and Melissa Marr. Also Melissa de la Cruz. And although I've not yet read Claudia Gray's 'Evernight', I bloody love her writing and venture to suspect that the novel will be awesome.
t /stealthy attempt to point 14 year old intern to YA urban vampire/fairytale fic that ISN'T PANTS. And that features interesting young women complete with spines, initiative, agency and personality.
amych - Aug 05, 2008 6:07:56 am PDT #6772 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is there any downside to being a vampire in this verse?
It makes you rilly emo.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2008 6:10:04 am PDT #6773 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
(This is the same sort of thing that drove me insane with Time Traveler's Wife-- that and the horrible authorial intrusion.)
Barb, can you explain this wrt Time Traveler's Wife ? I know you didn't like it the way I did, but I'm not sure what you mean here.
Same here. I loved that book to pieces, and part of the reason was because Niffenegger was so internally consistent.