Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.

'Objects In Space'


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."


StuntHusband - Jul 01, 2009 10:06:10 am PDT #9492 of 28404
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

Have not. Please do! Re-reading Brust's Dragaera novels for the zillionth time is amusing, but not new. It's almost to Tolkien-level memorization. "Oh, page 302 - yeah, I remember that."


Atropa - Jul 01, 2009 10:17:33 am PDT #9493 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

It's almost to Tolkien-level memorization. "Oh, page 302 - yeah, I remember that."

I would give you A Look, but then you would pointedly ask how often I've read "Those Who Hunt The Night", and then things would just devolve.

I'm halfway through reading del Toro's "The Strain", and finding it fairly entertaining. I have my suspicions about some things that might turn into big gaping plot holes, but so far it's fun. And making me want to watch Blade 2 again, go figure.


StuntHusband - Jul 01, 2009 10:21:48 am PDT #9494 of 28404
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

(sighs) Don Ysidro. The only vampire to give Armand a run for his elegant money (and heels!)

If I weren't so pudgy, I'd totally channel their love-child in my Saturday Night Antics each week.


beth b - Jul 01, 2009 10:43:21 am PDT #9495 of 28404
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I really enjoied Wicked Game.

No ,not top 10 , but fun My quick review

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Barb - Jul 01, 2009 10:57:24 am PDT #9496 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”

Genre-busting is okay with me, but you better make it worth it.

Imagine if erika and I were allowed free rein to make wicked on Ms. Meyer.

Heh.

Heh heh heh...


erikaj - Jul 01, 2009 11:15:12 am PDT #9497 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!

Stop it, Barb, you'll get me hot and then I won't be able to work all day. But I wouldn't have to travel, just work my impaired way among the fembots in her fanbase. On a more serious note, I really do find her lack of respect for the women writers who came before kind of appalling...we all owe them. Every time we can pick up a pen or a keyboard without somebody wondering if our uterus is going to fall out, it's because they were brave enough to do that before us, and as women writers we should always remember that.(That doesn't mean we have to love their books, but, surprisingly enough from the wiseass, I would argue for a bit more respect from the flavor of the month.)


Barb - Jul 01, 2009 11:25:48 am PDT #9498 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”

On a more serious note, I really do find her lack of respect for the women writers who came before kind of appalling

Well, but look at the type of female behavior she's advocating within that series. I would suspect that because of her faith she has the firm belief that the wimmen should stay back and be subservient and let the menfolk take care of them, never mind that she's earned more money than her husband would have ever imagined in any of his most fevered fantasies. And if confronted with that fact, would just say, "Well, but I never, ever, never expected that my little story would ever get published. It was just a dream that I wrote down. And if it's enjoyed such success, then it's because it's God's will."

Because that covers a multitude of excuses and inconsistencies.


Barb - Jul 01, 2009 11:25:48 am PDT #9499 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”

My outrage didn't need two posts. Sorry.


Steph L. - Jul 01, 2009 11:34:36 am PDT #9500 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I think it's worth 2 posts, myself.


Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2009 1:30:20 pm PDT #9501 of 28404
brillig

Jilli, Cabinet of Dr Caligari hit the postal system this afternoon.