They don't call Bella "Mary Sue" for nothing.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
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."
le nubian - Aug 12, 2008 8:45:39 am PDT #6956 of 28385
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Gris - Aug 12, 2008 8:54:34 am PDT #6957 of 28385
Hey. New board.
Hmm. And here I was hating/loving it mostly because the writing isn't very good.
I say, as I work my way through "She Went All The Way," courtesy Meg(gin) Cabot. Not her best work, by the way.
Toddson - Aug 12, 2008 9:42:49 am PDT #6958 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
he he ... I had dinner with a friend last night and she's working her way through the Twilight series. And I was in Borders yesterday at lunch and there was a lot of Twilight stuff ... including a sheet of stickers with pictures of bats, etc., and thematic sayings.
DebetEsse - Aug 12, 2008 10:05:17 am PDT #6959 of 28385
Woe to the fucking wicked.
There was a series soundtrack (with source CDs for sale) at B&N
Susan W. - Aug 13, 2008 7:59:21 am PDT #6960 of 28385
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Text of Lois McMaster Bujold's speech at Denvention last weekend: [link]
She talks a lot about genre and how fans have reacted to the SF and romance elements in the Sharing Knife series.
sumi - Aug 13, 2008 8:04:55 am PDT #6961 of 28385
Art Crawl!!!
Wheel of Time movies. . . really.
Miracleman - Aug 13, 2008 8:33:17 am PDT #6962 of 28385
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Wheel of Time movies. . . really.
Gech.
I barely made it through the first one and that was only because...well, I was doing design work for one of the first companies to get the movie rights.
Needless to say, the project fell apart. Too damn bad some fetid, soulless necromancers in Hollywood resurrected it.
But the book stank on ice.
Consuela - Aug 13, 2008 5:48:38 pm PDT #6963 of 28385
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wheel of Time movies. . . really.
Well, now, that's a terrible idea.
I can't possibly imagine how you could make a decent movie out of those books, unless you scrapped 80% of them. Therefore pissing off the enormous fanbase you're trying to buy into with the movies.
le nubian - Aug 14, 2008 2:34:45 am PDT #6964 of 28385
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm not sure if anyone read EW's review of Breaking Dawn. Even though they give it a "D", the review seems restrained enough - particularly after reading cleolinda!
The comments (now totaling 849) from - it seems to me - mostly teenagers are not so restrained. EW typically doesn't get quite that kind of commenting on their web posted reviews, so reading a couple of pages of that was startling.
Barb - Aug 14, 2008 2:58:00 am PDT #6965 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Startling how? In the book's defense or slamming it?