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.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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."
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
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.)
Sheryl - Jan 13, 2010 12:49:06 pm PST #10781 of 28367
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
There's only five books in the series (plus a short story collection), so it's not such a huge time investment. Plus, they're good! You should read them in order, though.
Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2010 4:34:21 am PST #10782 of 28367
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
6,000 word article about Neil Gaiman in this week’s New Yorker: [link]
DavidS - Jan 18, 2010 7:34:35 am PST #10783 of 28367
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They're on to us!
(Internet critics deride Gaiman’s fans as “Twee ‘Bisexual’ Goth Girls with BPD”—borderline personality disorder—“who are drama majors and who are destined to become cat ladies.”)
P.M. Marc - Jan 18, 2010 8:01:49 am PST #10784 of 28367
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(Internet critics deride Gaiman’s fans as “Twee ‘Bisexual’ Goth Girls with BPD”—borderline personality disorder—“who are drama majors and who are destined to become cat ladies.”)
Y'know, did they name internet critic names? Cause I don't think I've seen that, and also feel the desire to punch some dillhole in the nads.
Sue - Jan 18, 2010 8:24:18 am PST #10785 of 28367
hip deep in pie
Apparently it was Jonathan Ross. [link]
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2010 8:41:49 am PST #10786 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't know about that.
He is also a friend of author Neil Gaiman, and he and his wife appear in Gaiman's short story "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch", collected in Fragile Things.
If he did say that, it may have been completely in jest and taken out of context. Also, what, he is not an Internet critic! He is a BBC personality!
Also, that poster and I disagree on the American Gods plot twist, because it totally slipped by me and I thought it was awesome and hilarious even though I felt stupid.