I must have missed that, Glam. It was a major point made in the first book that you die if you're separated from your daemon. I thought it was a really cool idea, and then he just threw it out in the third book.
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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."
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2009 9:30:00 am PDT #10316 of 28371
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - Oct 30, 2009 9:34:44 am PDT #10317 of 28371
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A bit more of her bio:
On 22 April 1880 Edith married Hubert Bland, though their unconventional marriage suffered from infidelity. Bland was one of the founders of the Fabian Society, of which Havelock Ellis, Eleanor Marx, and George Bernard Shaw were among its members. At this time Nesbit became an active socialist, cut her hair short and embraced the new values of the "advanced" woman. She and her husband jointly edited the Society's journal Today and entertained many friends and colleagues at their grand home Well Hall, Kent. Smoking cigarettes, the vivacious and bohemian dark haired Nesbit was always surrounded by a large circle of friends and admirers.
flea - Oct 30, 2009 9:43:00 am PDT #10318 of 28371
information libertarian
And she died of lung cancer.
Ouise - Oct 30, 2009 10:08:49 am PDT #10319 of 28371
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Speaking of Pullman, has anyone read the Sally Lockhart trilogy?
I loved them, although I haven't read them in a while (a decade, maybe?) I still remember the outraged fury I felt (at the unjust laws, not the book) when I read The Tiger in the Smoke.
I'll have to borrow them from them library again. Yay, books!
Maysa - Oct 30, 2009 7:38:34 pm PDT #10320 of 28371
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me. So much so that I really couldn't read The Tiger in the Smoke objectively, I just wanted Fred to still be alive.
Glamcookie - Oct 30, 2009 8:39:16 pm PDT #10321 of 28371
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me.
Oh yeah. Tears were shed over that one, too.
Katerina Bee - Oct 31, 2009 10:39:52 am PDT #10322 of 28371
Herding cats for fun
I think I'm going to have to shelve some of my favorite books under "Cry at the Ending." Haven't read the Pullman yet, but I've got The Plague Dogs and The Incredible Journey.
I did see a "Ruby" dramatization starring Billie Piper and thought it was really good stuff.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2009 11:15:10 am PDT #10323 of 28371
Always Anti-fascist!
Last book that made me cry was Richard Price's "Freedomland"...it ought to, it was essentially an urban recasting of the Susan Smith case.
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2009 11:16:15 am PDT #10324 of 28371
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wasn't that made into a movie? I fell asleep.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2009 11:25:43 am PDT #10325 of 28371
Always Anti-fascist!
The movie got the *story* right, but didn't capture all the internal stuff or all the history of Dempsy or...which is weird, as Price is a screenwriter, and a good one. I don't know why the adaptation was so disappointing, but then I'm a Price fan also and think his writing is, to use a technical literary term, the shit.