Should I tell them that it ends up with suck? No pun intended.
More effective if they discover it on their own. And the outrage is so much more delicious to savor.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
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."
Barb - Aug 14, 2008 11:16:02 am PDT #6970 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Fay - Aug 14, 2008 5:55:55 pm PDT #6971 of 28385
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
But do the Twilight fansgirls think the ending sucks? I mean, presumably they didn't think that the BEGINNING sucked, or they wouldn't be fangirls? Granted, I've only read the first book (and I'll probably eventually buy the others, when I'm in an appropriately masochistic/pisstaking/sugarcraving frame of mind - I mean, I know I'm probably going to buy the latest Anita Blake at some point), but it wasn't like the first book was less than pants. It was sparklywarkly Hello Kitty pants with sugar sprinkles. Pants pants pants pants pants, and then some. I figure anyone who loved the first book must know what they're in for?
KJ Parker's Devices and Desires, however, is really rather good. Am reading that at the moment. (And have also been mainlining Ann Somerville's online original fic slash. It's like pure crack. Like Mercedes Lackey's Big Gay Valdemar books, only pornier. Gah.)
Atropa - Aug 14, 2008 6:04:02 pm PDT #6972 of 28385
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I figure anyone who loved the first book must know what they're in for?
Actually, a lot of the Twilight fangirls are VERY UPSET about how Breaking Dawn was. Feeling betrayed types of upset. Poor sparkly munchkins.
amych - Aug 14, 2008 6:11:12 pm PDT #6973 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But do the Twilight fansgirls think the ending sucks?
There have apparently been wankfests about whether it's a more effective protest (protest! really! not, say, "negative review") to burn the book or return it to the store.
le nubian - Aug 14, 2008 6:20:45 pm PDT #6974 of 28385
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Oh, "startling" is the way in which the comments seem barely literate on the EW review page. Whew. They all seem so young with only a few exceptions.
beth b - Aug 14, 2008 7:17:32 pm PDT #6975 of 28385
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
From the EW review -- Meyers lost her character and universe. Now if you loved Twilight changing your main character from a nice young girl to someone who seems to either not feel pain or enjoy pain, I understand why her readers are upset.
Fay - Aug 14, 2008 7:29:48 pm PDT #6976 of 28385
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Crumbs! Really? I had no notion!
The poor wee scones! I hope that they seek solace in Anne Rice or Buffy. (Depending on which aspects of Meyers' books appealed to them the most.)
Toddson - Aug 15, 2008 3:53:30 am PDT #6977 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
From the Washington Post's book review:
This ick factor goes through the roof in Breaking Dawn which is, frankly, dreadful.
and, succinctly:
Reader, I hurled.
Calli - Aug 15, 2008 5:49:41 am PDT #6978 of 28385
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I recently finished Alchemy of Stone, by Ekaterina Sedia. It was beautiful! Has anyone here read it?
Kat - Aug 15, 2008 6:02:53 am PDT #6979 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Have not read it, Calli. What's it about?
I just finished The Lace Reader which was intriguing. I love the fact that from the very first you know that Towner will be a totally unreliable narrator and as you go through the entire story, you are questioning what is real and what isn't. At some point, I gave up the ghost and just really decided to let her narration be the "truth" of the story. But then you hit the end and it's all whoa. Beautifully done, but sad and disturbing. Highly recommend.