- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.; Rev Upd Su edition (26 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 031231258X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312312589
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,335,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This revised and updated edition covers the seventh season of "Buffy" and features all-new episode guides, cast biographies, Buffy trivia and behind-the-scenes anecdotes. There are interviews with cast members including Anthony Stuart Head (Giles) and Emma Caulfield (Anya).
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This books claims to be newly revised to include the seventh season of Buffy. What it doesn't say on Amazon is that the episode guide only covers the episodes that ran in North America up until November of its final season. There are no episode synopses for the rest of season seven! (which probably ran until May or June).
I thought this book was going to cover all seven years of episodes - which is the only reason why I bought it. I wanted a complete digest of the series all in one book.
Other than the incomplete episode guide, the book so far has lots of interesting tidbits - but the episode synopses themselves are really short and don't provide near enough detail. I have read other episode guides for television series that were so comprehensive that it was like you were watching every episode as you read it - great in case you missed any shows! This book definitely does not do that.
Save your money and wait for an authorized guide to come out that actually contains the information it claims to.
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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Not the Best Buffy Guide Ever...
18 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
'The Girl's Got Bite' is the latest "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" guide to surface, but it's not all that great. First off, according to this site, the book is "Completely Revised and Updated Through Season Seven", which is not entirely true. The episode guide only goes through the ninth episode of the seventh season, "Never Leave Me", so anyone looking for anything beyond that should be warned that they're not going to get it.
This "Buffy" guide includes what most of the others do. There is an introduction that actually gives a history of the feature film that started it all. That is followed by descriptions of the series' characters, a history of the vampire, cast biographies and finally the episode guide. A majority of the 342 pages are the episode descriptions, which are okay except for one little thing that bothered me: season one's episode 11 is actually called "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", but they list it in this book as being called "Invisible Girl". Well, according to my season one DVD that is not correct.
As far as cast biographies go, they are the same here as they are everywhere else, so we don't learn anything new. This is the same with the character guide. As for the episode guide, since only 9 of the seventh season's episodes are featured, it is pretty pointless to even have them there. I would recommend the "Buffy" guide 'Bite Me', which contains an episode guide complete all the way through season six. I can guarantee that there will be another "Buffy" guide to come out in the future that will include all of season seven as well. Hopefully it will be a 'Watcher's Guide', which are the best of the "Buffy" guides in my opinion. The 'Watcher's Guides' and 'Bite Me' seem to contain more information to satisfy Buffy's biggest fans. So my advice is to just wait until another guide comes out. This is not a terrible book, but it just can't hold a candle to the other ones.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Good solid info
27 July 2003
Format:Paperback
This is the first Buffy reference book that I have read and I have to say that I enjoyed it.I found it to be very detailed.The thing I enjoyed most was the complete listing of every song by every band that was played in every episode.It also provided the names of the cds the songs were on.I thought that was a nice touch. I discovered some good music from that.
I think all Buffy fans would find this book worthwhile.
I think all Buffy fans would find this book worthwhile.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing
19 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
This is not a horrible book, but it is kept from being a really good book by two major failings.
The first problem is that the writing is just not terribly engaging. You can tell that Ms. Tracy is a journalist rather than a creative writer as her prose generally has very little sparkle. This would be forgivable if the information in the book were anything new, but any real fan of the show already knows 99.9% of everything in this book. I would still recommend it for new fans or fans who haven't read any of the official books, but...
Problem #2 is that the actual information is sometimes suspect. There are occasional misquotes from episodes and frequent faulty analyses of events in the series. I cannot speak for the factual information about the behind the scenes aspect of the show, but the info about the show itself is often a bit off. For example (***Show Spoilers ahead***), the author states that Spike is tricked by the demon who restores his soul. That he was actually looking to have the chip removed from his head. This idea has been refuted by Joss Whedon and, more importantly, by Spike himself in season 7 of Buffy and season 5 of Angel. This is just sloppy scholarship.
In short, I would only recommend this book to Buffy completists or to fans so obsessive that they need to find that 0.1% of new information that might be gleaned from this volume. :)
The first problem is that the writing is just not terribly engaging. You can tell that Ms. Tracy is a journalist rather than a creative writer as her prose generally has very little sparkle. This would be forgivable if the information in the book were anything new, but any real fan of the show already knows 99.9% of everything in this book. I would still recommend it for new fans or fans who haven't read any of the official books, but...
Problem #2 is that the actual information is sometimes suspect. There are occasional misquotes from episodes and frequent faulty analyses of events in the series. I cannot speak for the factual information about the behind the scenes aspect of the show, but the info about the show itself is often a bit off. For example (***Show Spoilers ahead***), the author states that Spike is tricked by the demon who restores his soul. That he was actually looking to have the chip removed from his head. This idea has been refuted by Joss Whedon and, more importantly, by Spike himself in season 7 of Buffy and season 5 of Angel. This is just sloppy scholarship.
In short, I would only recommend this book to Buffy completists or to fans so obsessive that they need to find that 0.1% of new information that might be gleaned from this volume. :)
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