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

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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."

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Atropa - May 09, 2013 2:53:30 pm PDT #20779 of 28564
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

the idea of someone just out of elementary school reading "24 Hours" is making me clutch my hypothetical pearls in horror.

I was going to say Pfffft, Sandman is totally appropriate for an 11 year old!, and then I stopped and asked myself if I'd be willing to give it to Princess Tickybox in three years. Ha, nope.

Polter-Cow - May 09, 2013 2:57:45 pm PDT #20780 of 28564
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

"24 Hours", I'm guessing?

Yep.

My gut reaction was definitely um, no, not for an 11-year-old.

sj - May 09, 2013 4:28:10 pm PDT #20781 of 28564
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Thanks, everyone. It's been a while since I read them. I probably would let an 11 year old of mine read them, but TCG's brother and sister-in-law probably wouldn't. I ended up picking up a book on drawing superheroes for my nephew instead.

Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2013 5:12:08 pm PDT #20782 of 28564
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!

I have to agree about the appropriateness. Just because the stories are lovely and superbly written doesn't mean they're for all ages. Of Gaiman's catalog, I guess Coraline, The Graveyard Book and Mirrormask would be good for tweens?

Kat - May 09, 2013 5:17:11 pm PDT #20783 of 28564
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Coraline and The Graveyard Book for sure. Also the picture book about trading dad for a goldfish because it's funny.

JZ - May 09, 2013 5:26:49 pm PDT #20784 of 28564
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Stardust, maybe? It's been ages since I even skimmed through it, but I don't remember anything glaringly inappropriate.

sj - May 09, 2013 5:29:39 pm PDT #20785 of 28564
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

He really prefers graphic novels to books, but I don't know what he has read, so I bought him the book on drawing superheroes instead, because I heard he recently started becoming interesting in drawing.

DebetEsse - May 09, 2013 5:30:57 pm PDT #20786 of 28564
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Stardust is sort of a hybrid of text and image, at least in the One True Edition (IMO), but it does include a sex scene in the beginning.

erikaj - May 10, 2013 5:39:42 am PDT #20787 of 28564
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Thanks, JZ. Glad you like them. Your check's incoming. I started reading a lot of stuff ahead of my age, so I would be terrible at assessing what to give a kid to read.

-t - May 10, 2013 5:45:12 am PDT #20788 of 28564
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I feel like there's a significant different between eleven-year-olds who picking up Sandman on their own, and giving a copy to them. But I don't really have an opinion as to appropriateness.

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