I have never heard of these books.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
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."
Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2009 10:36:18 am PDT #9936 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Sep 04, 2009 10:39:38 am PDT #9937 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
P-C, you know how you and I end up liking a lot of the same things? Go, read them. When the first one came out (originally titled simply Skulduggery Pleasant, and has since been retitled Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients, I think because maybe the author didn't intend for it to be a series, and then when it became one, he needed a new title), a reviewer dubbed it a new genre -- screwball fantasy.
Skulduggery Pleasant is basically Remington Steele -- a witty, sharp-dressed detective. Who happens to be a 400-year-old living skeleton.
Steph L. - Sep 04, 2009 10:40:39 am PDT #9938 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Check it out, in a comic strip synopsis: [link]
Frankenbuddha - Sep 04, 2009 10:46:52 am PDT #9939 of 28385
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I may have to get those. And for the love of all that is holy, somebody send those to Tim Burton.
Connie Neil - Sep 04, 2009 10:47:33 am PDT #9940 of 28385
brillig
mmmm, Remington Steele . . .
Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2009 10:47:39 am PDT #9941 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have added it to The List.
DawnK - Sep 04, 2009 10:51:51 am PDT #9942 of 28385
giraffe mode
They are really good. Like I said, the first one got my stuborn, non-reading son to read it all the way through and pick up the second one un-prodded.
Barb - Sep 04, 2009 3:16:27 pm PDT #9943 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Oh Tep, these sound great! I'm going to have to remember to pick those up for Nate-- sounds completely up his alley.
megan walker - Sep 05, 2009 6:53:16 am PDT #9944 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Going way back to lisah:
I just finished the first book in the Dark is Rising series. I read it because there was such an uproar about the movie adaptation and I had to see what people were being so passionate about. And I have to say I just don't get it. It was quite a slog.
Is the first book just a dud and the rest are more exciting? I was totally skimming at the end just to finish it.
I hope the second part is true, since I was looking forward to the series once I saw the description in that Newsweek list someone posted. For such a short book it took me quite awhile to get through. But I think I would have really liked it had I read it growing up.
I also took The Dark is Rising out at the same time so I will give it a go.
In the meantime, I'm reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians. It's promising so far. And starts off in my old neighborhood of Park Slope!
Hil R. - Sep 05, 2009 6:59:12 am PDT #9945 of 28385
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just finished the first volume of The Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters and bought the second volume. Pretty good so far. At first, I really hated one of the main characters, but she's slowly starting to grow on me.