November 5, 2002

[General] I am on record as

I am on record as a bit of a Buffy fanatic. I own the Watcher's Guides, the script books, the literary criticism, the videos, the DVDs, the lunchbox. I read Slayage every day. I watch at least an episode a day most days. I talk about it incessantly. I dream that I am a scooby. I read fan fiction in the off-season, just to get a fix.

OK, let's be frank--I obsess. :) Given all this, I was surprised to find a book about Buffy which imparted new information: Bite Me!, by Nikki Stafford.

To be fair, the book isn't really sure what it wants to be when it grows up. Part fangirl cast bios, part strange episode guide. Part about Buffy (the series) and part about Angel (the series). It's really quite odd. But wicked cool. :)

The coolest part is what passes for an episode guide. I say that, because as episode guides go, well, it kind of sucks, in that it doesn't really tell you much about the episodes themselves. This book seems to operate under the assumption that you have seen the episodes and, therefore, summarizing them would not only be redundant but downright boring. What it does offer, though, is the best compendium of episode trivia that I have ever seen. Anywhere.

A must buy for Buffy-whores everywhere. :)

Posted by Lori at November 5, 2002 12:21 AM