Maybe somebody else shoots first.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'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."
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2011 9:05:48 am PST #13724 of 28288
Coding and Sleeping
-t - Jan 26, 2011 9:18:03 am PST #13725 of 28288
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Availability in the UK, maybe? It was something that wouldn't affect me so I let it slip right out of my head.
Gris - Jan 26, 2011 11:37:44 am PST #13726 of 28288
Hey. New board.
Maybe it has a new virtual cover with the HBO tie-in.
sumi - Jan 26, 2011 11:38:15 am PST #13727 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
You know the tweet was in reply to a question so maybe it was regarding a UK release.
Laga - Jan 31, 2011 10:31:33 am PST #13728 of 28288
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sumi - Jan 31, 2011 10:35:38 am PST #13729 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
No!
(Did you see how many sections of that course there were? Do they all have the same reading list?)
Laga - Jan 31, 2011 10:49:09 am PST #13730 of 28288
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I did not, I only followed the link from The Daily What (where they said this is an HONORS course!)
Strega - Jan 31, 2011 11:06:58 am PST #13731 of 28288
The section is just the specific course #.
We will read stories about the monstrous, the supernatural, and the horrible -- that is, stories that center their plots on some of the main issues that concern students of fiction, for instance, the differences between the real and the unreal, between life-affirming love and unhealthy seduction, and between artistic craftsmanship and mass appeal.
I think Twilight could be quite instructive about that last distinction.
Amy - Jan 31, 2011 11:09:03 am PST #13732 of 28288
Because books.
The last two, actually.
Gris - Jan 31, 2011 11:13:39 am PST #13733 of 28288
Hey. New board.
An honors course that's focused on supernatural tales (reading Frankenstein, Dracula, Turning of the Screw)
I think it might be kind of interesting to read Twilight immediately after reading Dracula in a college literature course. I rather hate Twilight, but it's actually ridiculously fun to talk/argue about. My wife and I do it all the time. She's a fan, and also an English teacher who defends it on two fronts - first, as good storytelling, if not good story (which, since I read the first three book in about three days is hard for me to argue - bad writing, but hopelessly addictive) and second as, essentially, bodice-rippers with teen appeal. Only without the actual bodice ripping, which actually, I think, increases the teen girl appeal. She recently convinced me to read Outlander, which I also didn't like much, which I think appeals to her in the same place.