Dude, we're having a meeting for the part-timers next week and if the boss wants me to move from the children's section, I think I will cry. Besides the awkwardness of having to convince an angst-ridden, sulky 15 year old that no, no, he really wants to read, I just. The BOOKS. I can't stop buying them and and and. jsahdajsdhg Yes. Yes. Some other piratey things out right now is Julia Golding's The Ship Between the Worlds and The Princess and the Captain (which is fantasy set during the age of discovery and slightly more girly-focused). I have no idea why pirates haven't caught more because of PotC. Really.
They need to stop gearing things towards only boys. Honestly.
The lady in charge of the kid's section said she met him one day. (He got kicked out of college, which amuses me no end because what better way to get back than the write a book about a gun-toting skeleton?) Although, if this comic shop is the one on Crampton Quay, then I need to start going more often. (And, yes, he has to be a Gaiman geek. Bentley.)
And, well, adult literature takes itself far too seriously, even the horror/macabre genre (damn you Anne Rice, damn you). There needs to be, like, a Series of Unfortunate Events kind of book for adults, something that's bizarre, twisted, and hilarious that pretty much goes, "I'm going to go with this, and drag you along, and you'll be coming along willingly for the ride before you even realise it." I always read from the YA section, even when my family kept saying, "Uh, honey, you're eighteen now." It always pains me to hear parents tell their teens in the awkward, in-between stage that they need to move to the adult section and read 'real' books. Bah. :|
Although, you know, if you're desperate I can totally throw original stuff at you. (And we can also pretend I never said that.) If you want a psuedo-steam punk, strange version of Alice in Wonderland. Or something. And you can pretend you never met me. ...I'm just going to shut up about this right now.
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They need to stop gearing things towards only boys. Honestly.
The lady in charge of the kid's section said she met him one day. (He got kicked out of college, which amuses me no end because what better way to get back than the write a book about a gun-toting skeleton?) Although, if this comic shop is the one on Crampton Quay, then I need to start going more often. (And, yes, he has to be a Gaiman geek. Bentley.)
And, well, adult literature takes itself far too seriously, even the horror/macabre genre (damn you Anne Rice, damn you). There needs to be, like, a Series of Unfortunate Events kind of book for adults, something that's bizarre, twisted, and hilarious that pretty much goes, "I'm going to go with this, and drag you along, and you'll be coming along willingly for the ride before you even realise it." I always read from the YA section, even when my family kept saying, "Uh, honey, you're eighteen now." It always pains me to hear parents tell their teens in the awkward, in-between stage that they need to move to the adult section and read 'real' books. Bah. :|
Although, you know, if you're desperate I can totally throw original stuff at you. (And we can also pretend I never said that.) If you want a psuedo-steam punk, strange version of Alice in Wonderland. Or something. And you can pretend you never met me. ...I'm just going to shut up about this right now.
Okay, apparently donw now! Finally.