Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Typo Boy - Aug 10, 2009 1:34:46 pm PDT #9830 of 28385
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Kat - Aug 10, 2009 5:41:38 pm PDT #9831 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Although I think I've just figured out the Big Twist and am mildly curious to see how it plays out and whether it really matters. I'm reading quickly now since I just want to know if anything cool awaits me at the end;
Polter-Cow, not much cool happens at the end. It's entertaining enough and the biggest twist to me is the relationship with the doctor at the end as that was the least predictable.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2009 4:10:14 am PDT #9832 of 28385
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm currently reading the first Dexter book. I haven't seen the TV series yet, but I'm loving the book.
The first season follows the first book pretty faithfully, up to a point. After that, the books and the show diverge wildly. I still haven't read the third one as I've heard that it's nowhere near as good as the first two.
Shir - Aug 11, 2009 7:57:05 am PDT #9833 of 28385
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
(Skipping thousands of posts ahead)
Anyone here read Ecstasy and Me, Hedy Lamarr's autobiography? Is it any good?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2009 7:59:01 am PDT #9834 of 28385
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Anyone here read Ecstasy and Me, Hedy Lamarr's autobiography? Is it any good?
That's Hedley!
t /Blazing Saddles
Tom Scola - Aug 14, 2009 3:16:46 am PDT #9835 of 28385
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Interesting instant coffee ad campaign from the UK: [link]
StuntHusband - Aug 14, 2009 4:58:15 am PDT #9836 of 28385
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Literary Buffistas, I can't find if I've asked this before:
When I was a youngster, there was a scifi book about a boy who investigates a cave that is rumored to be haunted. Actually, a spaceship crashed there years before and Bad Aliens had enslaved the Good Aliens to do their bidding.
The Good Aliens each were part of a collective - a TV-looking-thing that was the "Think Think", long-fingered critters that lived under rocks that were the hands, one critter that was the eyes, one that was the ears, etc. The protagonist befriends a young "think think" and works to free the aliens.
I cannot remember what this is called.
Do any of you know?
Jesse - Aug 14, 2009 5:31:32 am PDT #9837 of 28385
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Interesting instant coffee ad campaign from the UK: [link]
Ooh, I've watched some of those, but didn't realize there were so many more!
megan walker - Aug 14, 2009 7:21:49 am PDT #9838 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm sad to see that Carte Noire is now apparently part of Kraft Foods.
They've always had great ads.
Polter-Cow - Aug 14, 2009 11:27:17 am PDT #9839 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I was only half-right on the Big Twist of The Thirteenth Tale. I thought that Vida was actually Emmeline, not Adeline (and Emmeline was Adeline), but I didn't really see what that would accomplish. The actual truth was kind of cool, really, and I love the added twist of Vida's not knowing whether it was Adeline or Emmeline she saved. It's maddening; there are so many reasons I should have loved this book, but it just didn't do it for me. I also agree that Margaret's obsession with her "lost twin" was melodramatic and annoying and was one reason I never gave a flip about her. Christ, woman, can you honestly feel this much separation anxiety for THIS LONG over a twin you never knew? And then all the business with "seeing" her twin (especially at the end WTF) was just dumb.