Buffistas

And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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Jessica - Jan 06, 2009 4:19:04 am PST #8263 of 28476

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Only if you are a fan of EXTREME AWESOMENESS.

Fair warning, it does take a while to get into. I was engaged by the first 100 pages, and totally in love not long after that, but it's a bit of a steep hill to climb at first, and the language is easily the biggest barrier to entry. It's not that the first 100 pages are bad, but they do require a fair amount of concentration. It's not an easy book. But holy FRACK, is it ever worth it.

Kathy A - Jan 06, 2009 5:35:34 am PST #8264 of 28476

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I loved Watership Down and seem to recall it having a dictionary either before or after the narrative.

Colbert Report had a WD reference last night that is appropriate here:

"Stephen, you have Watership Down in with your non-fiction books."
"Yeah, so?"
"Stephen, it's about rabbits at war!"
"What's your point?"

Calli - Jan 06, 2009 6:27:14 am PST #8265 of 28476

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I have it on good authority that rabbits aren't harmless like everyone supposes.

javachik - Jan 06, 2009 8:40:54 am PST #8266 of 28476

Our wings are not tired.

!eeH

Shari_H - Jan 06, 2009 8:45:22 am PST #8267 of 28476

Keep breathing!

By the way, thank you to the Buffistas who were conversing recently about the Vorkosigan books and, unrelatedly, Connie Willis. I have had a happy couple of weeks working my way through several of the former and re-discovering how much I like the latter. (Bellwether was a lot of fun.) So thanks!

Laga - Jan 06, 2009 11:03:36 am PST #8268 of 28476

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I just finished chapter two of The Name of the Wind and I want to marry it and have it's babies. If you aren't seriously hooked by page 25 I could never love you.

Fay - Jan 06, 2009 11:59:27 pm PST #8269 of 28476

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

beams

Strix - Jan 07, 2009 7:33:50 am PST #8270 of 28476

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I have to admit, I love the more recent Bujold series more than the Vorkosigan books (The Sharing Knife, et al.) But although I have read a lot of scifi, it is not my all time fave genre, so it makes sense that I like the world she created in TSK: Beguilement a bit better.

sumi - Jan 07, 2009 7:37:28 am PST #8271 of 28476

Art Crawl!!!

Have you read the 3rd Sharing Knife book?

(I haven't. . . yet. Paying my humongous library fines will make it more likely that I will read it sooner.)

Strix - Jan 07, 2009 7:57:43 am PST #8272 of 28476

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Yes, I have! And I still like the series and the characters and Bujold seems to be whipping 'em out, which makes me happy.

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