Check it out, in a comic strip synopsis: [link]
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 04, 2009 10:46:52 am PDT #9939 of 28769
"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 28769
brillig
mmmm, Remington Steele . . .
Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2009 10:47:39 am PDT #9941 of 28769
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 28769
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 28769
“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 28769
"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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
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.