Zombie cows take up people-tipping?
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
'Life of the Party'
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."
Toddson - Jul 01, 2009 7:58:02 am PDT #9481 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
StuntHusband - Jul 01, 2009 8:01:00 am PDT #9482 of 28404
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Zombie cows take up people-tipping?
Well, it starts that way. Duke (the werewolf) thinks they'll eventually move to "attempted people eating" - zombies are, after all, brain-ovores.
It's a very Douglas Adams-meets-Supernatural sort of Americana horror/schlock fest. It's so much fun to read.
Oh, and Pig Latin is the powerful spell-casting language.
Glamcookie - Jul 01, 2009 8:03:00 am PDT #9483 of 28404
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Loving the Wuthering Heights discussion as I'm almost done reading the book at this very point in time. Somehow I never read it, though I was an English major (shocking, right?). Anyway, I'm loving it. It's just so fucked up. I'm sad I didn't read it in high school as I think I would really have loved it then. We just saw the '39 version of WH on the big screen, which prompted me to read the book. Minor nit, but I think Nelly found the hanging dog before it was dead. The intent was certainly to kill it, but I think it survived.
Toddson - Jul 01, 2009 8:28:38 am PDT #9484 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh my ... a friend of mine refuses to have a TV but does have a little DVD player and had been getting DVDs of various classic movies she'd loved and wanted to watch. This project has been complicated by the fact that her husband insists it's not safe to use a credit card on any online sites (which means they can't have Netflix). Well, I gave her a DVD of Wuthering Heights (the 1939 version, which is what she'd wanted) as a present ... only I hadn't read the information closely. Turns out it came with Korean subtitles, which she found kind of disconcerting.
Polter-Cow - Jul 01, 2009 8:32:17 am PDT #9485 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A while ago I mentioned my friend had written a zombie political thriller. She just sold it.
FEED is a book about politics, corruption, presidential campaigns, journalism, integrity, escapism, the traditional news media, and how Livejournal saved the world from the living dead. It's about reporters, writers, idiots who like to poke dangerous things with sticks, the things that keep them together, and the things that tear them apart.
It's also about, well, zombies. Lots of zombies. What happens to a society when it has to live with the constant threat of zombies. What that does to the entertainment industry. To social patterns. To clothing styles. To the way that people interact. To funeral rites. Basically, it's an unholy cross between TRANSMETROPOLITAN and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, with a little FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS on the side.
It is very Buffista-friendly. (I have read it, and it is AWESOME.)
Atropa - Jul 01, 2009 9:08:04 am PDT #9486 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, I lurrrved Gil's All-Fright Diner. All sorts of fun!
Stephenie Meyer. How much damage hath she done to the vampire "genre"?
gnnng. Do you really want me to go into the rant, or should I just go sulk in front of my two bookcases full of vampire books?
Toddson - Jul 01, 2009 9:17:32 am PDT #9487 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I found another vampire novel - Wicked Game by Jeri Smith-Ready. um ... interesting, but it isn't on my top ten list or anything. But the idea of vampire DJs was interesting.
Atropa - Jul 01, 2009 9:23:34 am PDT #9488 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But the idea of vampire DJs was interesting.
Hmmm. I may have to look that one up.
Oh, so I enthusiastically recommend Soulless, which comes out in October. Victorian hijinks, vampires, werewolves, and parasols, just like the cover blurb promised. And OH MY GOD, fun. Very very fun. I am planning on writing the author and gleefully fangirling at her.
StuntHusband - Jul 01, 2009 9:40:38 am PDT #9489 of 28404
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Do you really want me to go into the rant, or should I just go sulk in front of my two bookcases full of vampire books?
No, no - this is like a political discussion with my family, or a religious discussion with my seedgrove - we all agree AT HIGH VOLUME. Strangers would assume we're thisclose to killing each other.
I was hoping you HADN'T read "Gil's..." so I could spring it on you. I should have known better. You: horror fiction (mostly vampires). Me: Tolkien (and New Weird). I'll remember, eventually.
erikaj - Jul 01, 2009 9:47:57 am PDT #9490 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
A demon comes out of her keyboard? No, we'll want something she actually *uses*. Fay, I shit you not.I saved the link for a time, but it made me feel dirty. Because she's got a fanboard of ninnyhammer bobbleheads who agree with her every word on any subject. True story.(and not an Ari Gold "True story" either.) Genre-busting is okay with me, but you better make it worth it.