You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


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 - Apr 13, 2009 8:54:14 am PDT #8836 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”

erika-- your guy David's going to be speaking tomorrow in NYC on the post boom culture novel.

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erikaj - Apr 13, 2009 9:22:47 am PDT #8837 of 28414
Always Anti-fascist!

Of course, I'm the Snot Boogie of authors...I can write the same stuff. Yay? In all seriousness, he is just smart enough and pissed off enough to handle that topic.


Polter-Cow - Apr 13, 2009 10:55:35 am PDT #8838 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Has anyone else read La Perdida by Jessica Abel? Because I really didn't like it and would like my opinion validated by a competent authority.


Tom Scola - Apr 13, 2009 11:02:23 am PDT #8839 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Polter-Cow, I validate you. From what I remember of the story, the protagonist ventured deeply into Too Stupid To Live territory.


Polter-Cow - Apr 13, 2009 11:05:08 am PDT #8840 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Thank you, Tom. I just couldn't care about anyone or anything, it was all so boring. It was like "Here's a guy and here's a girl and then I pissed him off and then I pissed her off and then I still tried to hang out with them and I am so authentic and awesome and also Mexico is dangerous."


Kat - Apr 13, 2009 5:04:34 pm PDT #8841 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Has anyone else read La Perdida by Jessica Abel? Because I really didn't like it and would like my opinion validated by a competent authority.

I thought each character was completely unlikeable. Dot' know that I'm a competent authority, but still.


Polter-Cow - Apr 13, 2009 5:05:43 pm PDT #8842 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, everyone was a dick being a dick to each other; it was annoying.


Steph L. - Apr 13, 2009 8:04:10 pm PDT #8843 of 28414
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The newesrt thing on AmazonFail that I've read (I have killer insomnia*): it was due to a coding error made by a programmer for Amazon France.

Always the French, man. Always the French.

*(Can't sleep; clown will eat me.)


beth b - Apr 13, 2009 8:21:32 pm PDT #8844 of 28414
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I am thinking there are a few french novels that might put you to sleep....


Fay - Apr 13, 2009 10:59:22 pm PDT #8845 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

A friend on LJ just made herself an awesome little icon with a cute knitted monkey in a beret, that reads 'Amazon sales listing surrender singe'.