Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.

'Heart Of Gold'


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."


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.


-t - Sep 05, 2009 7:09:14 am PDT #9946 of 28385
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

George R. R. Martin is eating my brain.

I know I really loved the Dark is Rising series when I read it as a kid, but I remember remarkable little about the story.


Pix - Sep 05, 2009 7:40:18 am PDT #9947 of 28385
The status is NOT quo.

I know I really loved the Dark is Rising series when I read it as a kid, but I remember remarkable little about the story.

-t is me. I loved those books intensely, but it's been 25 years since I read them.