What if I don't realize how much I suck?
You gotta getta beta, baby.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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."
DavidS - Mar 17, 2011 6:48:57 am PDT #14117 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sumi - Mar 17, 2011 10:31:33 am PDT #14118 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
George RR Martin's publisher shows off the massive manuscrupt of A Dance with Dragons (so far).
erikaj - Mar 18, 2011 9:36:22 am PDT #14119 of 28287
Always Anti-fascist!
I wrote a Kos post that I think belongs here...if you're ever on DK, the new Readers and Book Lovers group might be worth Buffistas' time. [link]
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:36:36 pm PDT #14120 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 has an interview with John Norman. I didn't read it, because I can't separate the text from the author and I don't care to, because the text is stinky. But I thought it might interest some here.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 6:48:57 pm PDT #14121 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Norman is such a weird flashing of a kinky sensibility in a somewhat mainstream context.
You could go into a B. Dalton books at your local mall and get all the B&D you'd ever want.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:57:16 pm PDT #14122 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've got no issue with B&D in instances. As an assertion that that's the way the world works, and there are ingrained gender roles in it? Fuck that noise. Not interested.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 6:58:54 pm PDT #14123 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow, that was illuminating about my own biases because I realized while reading his words that I associate a highly latinate vocabulary as highly bullshit. (It is, of course, the core language of law and medicine, but also politics.)
It just screams to me as ungrounded NerdNerdNerd. (Not in the good way.)
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 7:00:22 pm PDT #14124 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As an assertion that that's the way the world works, and there are ingrained gender roles in it? Fuck that noise. Not interested.
I come from an opposite school where Wrong Thinking is intriguing. The consensus and the middle space is well mapped, but outliers reveal something.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 7:02:01 pm PDT #14125 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read three or four of his books. I've had bullshit revealed. I don't need to read the 25 others to learn anything about him, the world, or myself.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 7:12:50 pm PDT #14126 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't need to read the 25 others to learn anything about him, the world, or myself.
Well, there are definitely diminishing returns in his books. The thing that's interesting to me is not the rightness or wrongness of his ideas (spoiler alert: he's wrong), but that it has so much play. There was an article a long time back in Salon about all the bondage communities built around his stuff. I was boggled to see it had endured and even thrived. That's telling. Not that he's right, but that he's hitting a nerve.
I'll also note that while he's a pretty crappy writer in general, there are some action scenes that really stick out in my mind as being particularly thrilling. The Tarn (giant falcon) race in Assassins of Gor was a total fist-pumping moment for me.