Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON open thread!

To celebrate the release of Discount Armageddon, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
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jenk

March 7 2012, 18:49:00 UTC 5 years ago

I loved "You think I'm a virgin?!?!?"

It has been SO HARD not to spoil that...

reedrover

March 7 2012, 20:20:38 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  March 7 2012, 20:21:32 UTC

Absolutely!

I did put the "Because crazy gets all the knives" comment into my LJ for others to enjoy. And I read long sections of it out loud to my SO. The section on Argentine Tango made me laugh until I choked.

P.S. - Icon love! I know what Kestrel's book says on it even if the print is too small to read in a 100x100 icon.

pointedulac

March 7 2012, 23:06:48 UTC 5 years ago

I know that was the best! But I wonder how many of the poor victim girls *also* weren't virgins and didn't laugh in their faces. Idiot snake cult.

windtear

March 11 2012, 07:40:26 UTC 5 years ago

I have to admit, I am almost completely unfamiliar with ballroom dancing (Dancing With the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance? don't exactly go into dance history or why/how real dance competitions work) so for me, that section's funny, but more in the 'if this is real, we humans are loonies' sense.

seanan_mcguire

May 6 2012, 15:41:26 UTC 5 years ago

Disturbingly? It's real.

jenfullmoon

March 8 2012, 21:11:06 UTC 5 years ago

Would have been interesting to see if sacrificing a non-virgin would have befouled the works. Always wonder about that in books (as I recall, "Summon the Keeper" went into that...).

Also, way to assume that all single cryptid girls don't get it on, there. Unless they can't find any males of their species, anyway...actually, come to think of it, there might be a lot of virgin cryptid girls for that reason.

boojum

March 10 2012, 22:22:36 UTC 5 years ago

I thought that (unlike in the scene in the Summon the Keeper series) there was no actual practical use of the sacrifices here. The snake cult clearly thought that they were doing something towards waking or binding the dragon, but that doesn't meant that they were right. Even if they were right about the sacrifices helping, they might not have been right about the virginity being relevant.

I read it as "the snake cult is assuming that that single cryptids are virgins because the snake cult is composed of twits who don't have much clue", not "the author is assuming that single cryptids are virgins".

jenfullmoon

March 10 2012, 22:25:28 UTC 5 years ago

True. It just occurred to me that it was more likely that single cryptid girls would be virgins if they ah, have less options of people of their species to lose their virginities to, so the odds would be better. (Poor dragon princesses.)

Plus, yeah, idiots if they think Verity is an actual virgin. In those outfits? In this decade? BWAHAHAHAH.

seanan_mcguire

May 6 2012, 15:50:53 UTC 5 years ago

Pretty much.

queenmaggie

March 11 2012, 16:03:32 UTC 5 years ago

Is anyone familiar with the folkish song (often sung by three women Renfaire groups in harmony) titled "Do virgins taste better than those who are not?" I'll see if I can find an online sample...

silvertwi

March 13 2012, 21:00:00 UTC 5 years ago

The Brobdinagian Bards have a version up on their website. I once started a hilarious thread by posting that question as my facebook status.

queenmaggie

March 11 2012, 16:13:44 UTC 5 years ago

Is anyone familiar with the folkish song (often sung by three women Renfaire groups in harmony) titled "Do virgins taste better than those who are not?" I'll see if I can find an online sample...

seanan_mcguire

March 13 2012, 00:34:33 UTC 5 years ago

That line was one of the first things I knew for certain about this book.

janetmiles

March 14 2012, 20:00:50 UTC 5 years ago

I had been marking pages as I went along for kick-ass quotes I wanted to be able to find again (it's my personal copy; I can dogear the pages if I want to), but "Wait! You people think I'm a WHAT?" made me literally laugh out loud.