Buffistas

Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

First Previous Next Last Recent

Atropa - Jul 31, 2009 9:56:59 am PDT #9739 of 28388

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer as come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."

I ...

But ..

If you'll excuse me, I have to go collapse and try to keep my head from exploding in fury and WTF-ness.

Amy - Jul 31, 2009 10:00:27 am PDT #9740 of 28388

Because books.

Yeah, I'm not the biggest vampire genre reader out there, but even I know Laurel Hamilton in NO WAY pioneered it.

Atropa - Jul 31, 2009 10:02:45 am PDT #9741 of 28388

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Carmilla! Dracula! Varny the Vampyre! Gahhhh!

Barb - Jul 31, 2009 10:03:19 am PDT #9742 of 28388

“Not dead yet!”

If you'll excuse me, I have to go collapse and try to keep my head from exploding in fury and WTF-ness.

And again, I repeat, Laurell and reality really don't have a good relationship. She lives in her own little bubble of happiness...

Calli - Jul 31, 2009 10:10:40 am PDT #9743 of 28388

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Hmm. Evidently Jes Battis wrote a book on chosen families in Buffy and Angel.

StuntHusband - Jul 31, 2009 10:11:02 am PDT #9744 of 28388

Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

Carmilla! Dracula! Varny the Vampyre! Gahhhh!

And that's just the 19th century.

Saberhagen predates Rice, who predates Hamilton.

Barb - Jul 31, 2009 10:17:13 am PDT #9745 of 28388

“Not dead yet!”

In trying to be fair, much as it pains me, I wonder if Laurell wasn't referring to the vampire romance subgenre-- which, even there, she DID NOT PIONEER IT, but still, I wonder if that's what she was referring to.

Calli - Jul 31, 2009 10:21:07 am PDT #9746 of 28388

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Maybe she was referring to vampire romance. I think Chelsea Quinn Yarboro's St. Germaine series was an earlier version of that subgenre.

Hmmm. I really enjoyed those books. Maybe I should try rereading one or two, and see if they've held up over the years.

Connie Neil - Jul 31, 2009 10:22:45 am PDT #9747 of 28388

brillig

Maybe I should try rereading one or two, and see if they've held up over the years

I got rid of my copies, but that was because I lost my taste for the vile humans and the nasty things they did.

Polter-Cow - Jul 31, 2009 10:28:10 am PDT #9748 of 28388

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

In trying to be fair, much as it pains me, I wonder if Laurell wasn't referring to the vampire romance subgenre-- which, even there, she DID NOT PIONEER IT, but still, I wonder if that's what she was referring to.

Oh yeah, I mean, clearly she can't mean she INVENTED VAMPIRES or something. But maybe she popularized vampire romance.

First Previous Next Last Recent