Polter-Cow, I validate you. From what I remember of the story, the protagonist ventured deeply into Too Stupid To Live territory.
River ,'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."
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."
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.
Yeah, everyone was a dick being a dick to each other; it was annoying.
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.)
I am thinking there are a few french novels that might put you to sleep....
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'.
According to Daisey's inside sources, "A guy from Amazon France got confused on how he was editing the site, and mixed up 'adult,' which is the term they use for porn, with stuff like 'erotic' and 'sexuality.'"
This is sort of funny to me in that my housemate recently asked me how strong my European linguistic skills were because they were looking for people to help them avoid this very problem.
A friend is looking for suggestions for books for an 11-year-old prodigy. She's an excellent musician. She loves to read and reads at an advanced level. However, in some ways she still has an 11-year-old mind. She likes fantasy, but not if it's "too scary." She thinks Harry Potter is too scary. I suggested Robin McKinley. Any other ideas?
Maybe:
Dragonsinger
Little Fuzzy
Mirabile
My Family and Other Animals