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You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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."
Connie Neil - Jan 12, 2010 6:15:58 am PST #10771 of 28367
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 12, 2010 6:23:50 am PST #10772 of 28367
"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
The Oughts will be the Zombie/Vampire decade. This decade? Something else. Apart from my opinion, it's almost inevitable with trends in horror. It always cycles off to something new.
Dude, careful what you wish for! [link]
Polter-Cow - Jan 12, 2010 6:40:02 am PST #10773 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dude, did you read Breathers yet? It is SO fucked up. I liked it a LOT.
Not yet.
Polter-Cow - Jan 12, 2010 8:01:36 am PST #10774 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What was that about steampunk being the next big thing?
The next Quirk Classic will be Android Karenina.
It's Android Karenina, which will transpose the tale of Anna Karenina to a steampunk-inspired alternate 19th-century world of cyborgs, robot butlers, and space travel. S&S&S scribe Ben H. Winters will be helping to mechanize the original text, and the new quirkified version (the cover, at left, has yet to be designed) is set for release in bookstores this June.
Toddson - Jan 12, 2010 8:52:55 am PST #10775 of 28367
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I also wish people would stop writing the ... extrapolations? ... of Jane Austen. And, in a continuation of the crossover theme, there's now a book out about Jane Austen as a vampire.
Calli - Jan 12, 2010 10:02:21 am PST #10776 of 28367
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
there's now a book out about Jane Austen as a vampire
A shame she wasn't. We might have more of her books.
Ginger - Jan 12, 2010 11:47:36 am PST #10777 of 28367
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Imagine being a vampire author. You'd either have to change your name and be accused of being derivative of yourself or you'd have to pretend to be a series of descendants who keep discovering "lost" manuscripts. If the latter, you'd have to keep searching for period paper and ink while longing to write the whole thing on your netbook.
erikaj - Jan 12, 2010 11:48:39 am PST #10778 of 28367
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, there needs to be a book about this.
Consuela - Jan 12, 2010 4:55:08 pm PST #10779 of 28367
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, that's one of the premises of Tanya Huff's "Blood" series: the character Henry is a 500-yo vampire romance author. I don't recall what he did until modern times, though.
erikaj - Jan 13, 2010 4:43:04 am PST #10780 of 28367
Always Anti-fascist!
cool idea...I might read some, although I don't think I've ever read a series through to the end(pretty close on the Graftons, I suppose.)