I got 5 out of 10. None of the passages were familiar to me, even the ones from books I'd read.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Calli - Jun 03, 2011 5:54:28 am PDT #15072 of 28282
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2011 6:29:37 am PDT #15073 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finally read Someone to Run With, the book Shir sent me for Secret Santa a couple years ago! It was really good!
Ginger - Jun 03, 2011 7:17:47 am PDT #15074 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
By way of 10 notorious author spats [link] I came to this delicious review: [link]
If self-absorption, vague yearnings and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.
In "A Multitude of Sins," the characters' sense of befuddlement comes to infect, but never to enlighten, the reader.
At the top of the story, the protagonist offers an Awkward Pang of Simmering Dissatisfaction, which sounds suspiciously like the A.P.S.D. offered by the character in the previous story."
A man in a wheelchair cannot just be a man in a wheelchair; he must be a vehicle to help a lame metaphor get around."
The fact that modern literary fiction so often consists of an Awkward Pang of Simmering Dissatisfaction, some rhetorical props that indicate something ineffable and a closing Awkward Pang of Muted Epiphany is why I don't read much modern literary fiction.
Volans - Jun 03, 2011 9:30:55 am PDT #15075 of 28282
move out and draw fire
So if I want to start a "Book Tropes" website for APSE and other things, do I need to stage a pseudo-cide here first?
Unfortunately, Raq is my real name.
"I cannot believe I missed all the Fast Eddie crap. I don't know how I dodged that one."
le nubian, me too. Now I must Google.
Amy - Jun 03, 2011 9:35:40 am PDT #15076 of 28282
Because books.
Please don't stage a pseudo-cide. You just came back!
You could name the site LAPSE. Literary ... whatever whatever.
Scrappy - Jun 03, 2011 9:40:24 am PDT #15077 of 28282
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I was looking for a good article on the Gus thing and couldn't find one. Is there one out there?
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2011 9:42:07 am PDT #15078 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Atropa - Jun 03, 2011 9:56:07 am PDT #15079 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Tonight I discovered that Community College of Vermont offers a class " The Vampire in Literature, Culture & Film". I am going to take that class.
YOU MUST. REPORT BACK. And tell me what their reading list looks like.
Speaking of vampires (shut up, there was a segue there), I am currently reading The Science of Vampires, and it's a lot of fun.
EpicTangent - Jun 03, 2011 10:10:55 am PDT #15080 of 28282
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
YOU MUST. REPORT BACK. And tell me what their reading list looks like.
And whether it's available for online auditing!
Toddson - Jun 03, 2011 10:11:34 am PDT #15081 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I must ask - is the course given at night?