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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."

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P.M. Marc - Oct 22, 2009 7:53:31 pm PDT #10258 of 28377

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I, err.

::coughs::

Yeah, I've probably written at least 10,000 words of fiction on my iPhone, some of it through texting, some in note form.

I usually wind up with 300-400 word chunks that I quilt together and expand in the final versions, but really, most of my drafting now happens on the phone.

DavidS - Oct 22, 2009 8:04:35 pm PDT #10259 of 28377

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Cell phone/text novels are a big deal in Japan where they've been popular for years.

Really just updating the format of the old epistleatory novel, like Dangerous Liaisons.

Maysa - Oct 22, 2009 10:22:58 pm PDT #10260 of 28377

This is a really interesting article about the cell phone novels in Japan and how they're used by young women as a means for expression:

link

Fred Pete - Oct 23, 2009 4:38:31 am PDT #10261 of 28377

Ann, that's a ferret.

I haven't kept up -- my first reaction to "cell phone novel" was Steven King's Cell. Where cell phones are a key part of the story, but it definitely isn't a cell phone novel.

Aims - Oct 26, 2009 7:51:49 am PDT #10262 of 28377

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Emeline got a personally inscribed copy of Blueberry Girl from our friend Anne this weekend. Damn book made me cry. But she LOVES it. It is quite beautiful. A must-have for young girl children.

She is building up quite the collection of personalized books. She already has The Wolves in the Walls, Micawber (by John Lithgow) and this winter she'll be getting The Last Unicorn since Peter S. Beagle will be at the Con that we always go to.

Jessica - Oct 27, 2009 6:26:16 am PDT #10263 of 28377

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm about a third of the way through A Game of Thrones, and so far am really enjoying it. I haven't read fantasy (Tolkien and Harry Potter excluded) in years, so I'm pleased that this book holding my interest.

Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2009 8:44:55 am PDT #10264 of 28377

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Wikipedia can be so awesome sometimes: [link]

Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 8:50:25 am PDT #10265 of 28377

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So it appears that The Hotel New Hampshire is the Ultimate John Irving Novel.

Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 8:53:33 am PDT #10266 of 28377

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

That is excellent.

Also, it's fucked up yet unsurprising that the Irving books I loved the most in college (Garp, Hotel New Hampshire) were the ones that had all (or almost all) of the recurring themes.

DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 11:55:03 am PDT #10267 of 28377

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

were the ones that had all (or almost all) of the recurring themes.

Water Method Man and Setting Free the Bears both have the usual set of early Irving obsessions: Bears, Austria, Whores, Comic Mayhem, Ironic Death.

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