Because the shocker just puts people right off.
Pfft. Maybe you prudish Americans. In Europe it's a friendly gesture of affection.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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."
Jars - Sep 08, 2010 8:43:38 am PDT #12364 of 28332
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2010 8:45:23 am PDT #12365 of 28332
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Books are one of the only things which will prompt this kind of discussion
Clothes are what people talk to me about. And my lunchbox. Not that often my books. Except Godel, Escher, Bach, usually to ask me why.
Though I did see Bradley Cooper reading Middlesex while I was reading it, and I almost went over to talk to him about it. Coulda shoulda woulda.
Ginger - Sep 08, 2010 8:48:39 am PDT #12366 of 28332
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Roald Dahl’s last words.
I expect his last two words to be mine.
DavidS - Sep 08, 2010 8:50:59 am PDT #12367 of 28332
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I expect his last two words to be mine.
"Awww, shit," is likely for me.
Though my favorite last words were from the Irish writer Brendan Behan.
He was in a Catholic hospital, on his death bed, and attended by a nurse who was a nun. He stirred to consciousness as she wiped his brow and he said, "Ahhh, thank you sister, and may all your children be bishops."
Ginger - Sep 08, 2010 8:59:50 am PDT #12368 of 28332
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It is apocryphal, but I like to think that Oscar Wilde's last words were really "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
Volans - Sep 08, 2010 9:26:13 am PDT #12369 of 28332
move out and draw fire
Dylan Thomas: "I've had 17 whiskeys. I think that's a record."
Typo Boy - Sep 08, 2010 9:52:11 am PDT #12370 of 28332
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Karl Marx: "Last words are for fools who have not written enough books."
Aims - Sep 08, 2010 10:08:43 am PDT #12371 of 28332
Shit's all sorts of different now.
MARXIST! SOCIALIST! THINK OF THE VIKINGS!
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2010 10:09:35 am PDT #12372 of 28332
brillig
Famous last words: "OMG! Vikings!"
Ginger - Sep 08, 2010 10:16:54 am PDT #12373 of 28332
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One of my goals in life is that my last words are not "That was stupid."