We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.

Mal ,'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."


erikaj - Jul 12, 2009 5:25:33 pm PDT #9586 of 28476
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

She could slay, she just didn't like to.


Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2009 8:29:36 pm PDT #9587 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Abraham Lincoln - Zombie Emancipator!

Actually, the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author's next book is about Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer.


Calli - Jul 13, 2009 1:58:06 am PDT #9588 of 28476
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

She could slay, she just didn't like to.

She was an empress of the largest empire in human history. Surely she had people for that.


Volans - Jul 13, 2009 5:08:55 am PDT #9589 of 28476
move out and draw fire

I have it on good authority (ok, Neil Gaiman) that the British royalty, far from being demon hunters, were in fact Lovecraftian gods.


Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 5:10:22 am PDT #9590 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter sends me to a very happy Amazing Screw-On Head place.


Fay - Jul 13, 2009 6:32:48 am PDT #9591 of 28476
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

And of course Queen Victoria was a werewolf, not a demon hunter!


Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2009 6:35:52 am PDT #9592 of 28476
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter sends me to a very happy Amazing Screw-On Head place.

I continue to show that to people, and they are always "Why didn't this get made into a series?"

Sigh.


Kat - Jul 13, 2009 5:25:48 pm PDT #9593 of 28476
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Amy (it was you, right?) and Jesse, I just finished The Thirteenth Tale. I would love to hear what you think as I had a hard transition from Julia Glass who has spare prose to the book and I think it may have colored how I felt about the story.


Amy - Jul 13, 2009 5:59:39 pm PDT #9594 of 28476
Because books.

Too ... purple for you, Kat? I didn't really think so, but it did take me a few pages to get into the sort of more formal, old-fashioned style.

What irked about the story?


Ginger - Jul 13, 2009 6:10:09 pm PDT #9595 of 28476
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I just saw that Charlie Brown of Locus died [link] I feel old.