Nutty, Moon of Three Rings is an excellent choice. I remember liking the Witch World books, but I haven't tried rereading them. I loved all the YAs with "magic" in the title -- Lavender-Green Magic stands out. She's been sharecropping since the mid-1980s, so I'd recommend sticking to her earlier stuff.
Easy Bake. Flop-a-palooza. Woosh. Pop. I don't skulk.
Angel ,'Shells'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Jun 23, 2004 7:36:43 am PDT #697 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2004 7:39:23 am PDT #698 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Betsy, it's odd. I feel the same way about Princess Leia. Born in '73, was I. She was the first female asskicker I ever knew, and as an added bonus, was all smoochie with Han Solo. HAN SOLO.
Well, for me there was Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman (on TV) before Leia. But they were kinda' lame. It must have been the utter lack of snark.
I remember I was dissapointed that Leia had to be Jaba's bikini-clad harem girl in Return of the Jedi.
Betsy HP - Jun 23, 2004 7:41:14 am PDT #699 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I remember I was dissapointed that Leia had to be Jaba's bikini-clad harem girl in Return of the Jedi.
Oh, I was pleased. Because she subverted the whole thing and strangled Jabba with his own chain. Go Leia.
The heroines of the two Raiders sequels, though? Pfui. Give me Marian any day.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2004 7:44:03 am PDT #700 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh, I was pleased. Because she subverted the whole thing and strangled Jabba with his own chain. Go Leia.
Also, hot.
t /shallow
wonders who he's kidding - that tag never closes
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2004 7:45:56 am PDT #701 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Give me Marian any day.
I loved how she could drink a guy much larger than her under the table, and then be completely sober five minutes later.
flea - Jun 23, 2004 7:48:39 am PDT #702 of 10001
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Marian is okay for the first fifteen minutes of the film. Then she turns into this needing-to-be-rescued, evil-monkey-loving thing that shrieks "Indeeeee" all the time, and really pisses me off.
Allyson - Jun 23, 2004 7:55:01 am PDT #703 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The heroines of the two Raiders sequels, though? Pfui. Give me Marian any day.
Also forced to wear something ridiculous by a villian and then have to kick ass while wearing the ridiculous thing.
Also happened in True Lies.
Manny buys Wyoh a dress that's size too small, right? But she slinks around in happiness, whereas Leia and Marian are both like, "the FUCK?"
Trying to think of another movie where the heroine or female lead is forced to wear something ridiculous and then spend the rest of the flick having to fight in heels and a dress. Le Femme Nikita?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 23, 2004 8:00:42 am PDT #704 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
She was nicely defiant against the Nazi Hebrew Scholar What Got His Face Blown Up. Though with Kate Capshaw's character as a later comparison, Jennifer Tilly would have seemed wonderful.
Why couldn't Spielberg have made Temple of Doom a few years later when he was married to Amy Irving?
Beverly - Jun 23, 2004 8:10:12 am PDT #705 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Spielberg was married to Amy Irving--or breaking up with her--when he did Doom. Filming of ToD was actually where he and Kate Capshaw, now Mrs. Spielberg, met.
Nutty - Jun 23, 2004 8:10:39 am PDT #706 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Trying to think of another movie where the heroine or female lead is forced to wear something ridiculous and then spend the rest of the flick having to fight in heels and a dress.
Well, on the subject of Princess Leia, while she was as liable to yell at a villain as quail from him, she did spend the entire first movie desperately in need of a bra. So perhaps being forced to wear something else was actually a good thing. I was afraid she was going to put her own eye out. (I know, I know, fashions of the times. But, I mean really. That was the last time Lucas ever failed to provide excessive structure and elaboration in his movies, don't you think?)