Oh, and in entirely unrelated news: happy anniversary of Poe's death! They're going to give him a brand new funeral this weekend.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Strega - Oct 07, 2009 10:47:41 am PDT #10176 of 28379
Volans - Oct 08, 2009 4:29:21 am PDT #10177 of 28379
move out and draw fire
While I was in the bath reading last night
that's sort of a meta-appropriate location for reading that part, isn't it?
Atropa - Oct 08, 2009 2:45:15 pm PDT #10178 of 28379
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
that's sort of a meta-appropriate location for reading that part, isn't it?
Heh, yes. Pity I didn't have any of the blood red bath salts a friend of mine makes.
I finished the damn book last night. I would like to set the authors on fire. A lot. Including Bram Stoker as a character in the Dracula sequel, and having the original characters from the book (including Dracula himself) comment on how Stoker's book got things wrong and is a pack of lies COULD have been a clever idea IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WITH WRITING TALENT.
Strega, I'll have you know that I loudly exclaimed "JESUS!" when I got to where your post-it note was. Pete stuck his head around the bathroom door and said "Is it the section Strega mentioned? What is it?"
I will eventually write a huge, cranky review of the book on LJ. But for now, SET THEM ON FIRE. A LOT.
flounces off clutching copies of Anno Dracula and Daughter Of The Night
Strega - Oct 08, 2009 6:50:29 pm PDT #10179 of 28379
That part made me go, "Okay, you're doing this intentionally, right? Because you can't not know what this sounds like? Right? Right?!"
And what did the bit at the end with The Titanic even mean? Was the idea, "You thought that we were setting up a sequel, but actually they all drown, ha!" or "It wasn't really an iceberg, it was, um, maybe the Loch Ness Monster or something, we haven't quite worked that out yet," or what? So bewildering.
beth b - Oct 08, 2009 8:06:30 pm PDT #10180 of 28379
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
this is really fun to read without reading the white font.
It sort of looks like indignant sputtering
beth b - Oct 08, 2009 8:11:12 pm PDT #10181 of 28379
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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Volans - Oct 09, 2009 12:36:13 am PDT #10182 of 28379
move out and draw fire
OK, now I really want to know what the post-it-part was.
Strega - Oct 09, 2009 5:25:15 am PDT #10183 of 28379
Well, there's this climactic encounter that basically goes, "You killed my father!" "No, I am your father." "That's impossible!" "Search your feelings, you know it to be true." "Noooo!" And then someone falls from a great height. But no limbs are severed. I don't think.
P.M. Marc - Oct 09, 2009 5:30:01 am PDT #10184 of 28379
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
And at some point during this sequence, is it revealed that there is another?
DavidS - Oct 09, 2009 7:14:58 am PDT #10185 of 28379
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ten Best Secondhand Bookshops in UK
Oooh, nice feature:
Scriveners in Buxton, Derbyshire It packs 30,000 volumes over five floors and to encourage browsing, tea and coffee-making facilities plus cake and a donations box sit next to easy chairs. It specialises in antiquarian and first editions, but you’re just as likely to find that old Penguin for a couple of quid and the children’s section is expansive. There’s a tiny Victorian museum in the old cellar kitchen and an in-house bindery that will restore, rebind or create any book to order. 42 High St, Buxton, Derbyshire Tel: 01298 73100 scrivenersbooks.co.uk
In-house bindery to fix your broken backed books! Genius.