I have read most of the YA books listed in this thread.
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'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."
erikaj - Jun 06, 2011 11:17:57 am PDT #15148 of 28282
Always Anti-fascist!
Consuela - Jun 06, 2011 11:20:47 am PDT #15149 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Doylist? Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Because you're solving a mystery?
Nope, it's a shorthand for two ways of looking at the text: from the outside, thinking of the text as a product of a writer; or from the inside, thinking of the text as from within the world it creates.
So the first way is Doylist, because I know that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories.
The second way is Watsonian, in which I accept that Dr. John Watson experienced these adventures and is telling me about them.
A Doylist interpretation of the bogged-down narrative in Deathly Hallows is that JKR seemed too bound by the structure she had established, and couldn't figure out a way to keep the pacing up. A Watsonian interpretation is that it really was that difficult to find the horcruxes, and Harry wasn't smart enough to figure out how to do it more quickly.
Gris - Jun 06, 2011 11:25:53 am PDT #15150 of 28282
Hey. New board.
Ah, so much the same way we use "meta reasons" when we discuss TV.
Doylish: Giles left for much of the sixth season because ASH wanted to go to London.
Watsonian: Giles left because Buffy needed to be left without her watcher in order to continue growing up as a slayer.
Consuela - Jun 06, 2011 11:37:03 am PDT #15151 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Giles left because Buffy needed to be left without her watcher in order to continue growing up as a slayer.
Right, or because Giles felt she needed to have no Watcher anymore. In a Watsonian analysis, there's no such thing as the Hero's Journey, or TV Tropes (::spits ritually::).
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2011 8:59:51 am PDT #15152 of 28282
brillig
I found a really nifty website:
Medievalists.net, where there are oodles of links to articles about lots of things in journals etc. Much fun!
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2011 12:47:50 pm PDT #15153 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Lost Conan Doyle novel to be published:
The Narrative of John Smith was written when Conan Doyle was 23, and just a few years before the author published his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet. It tells the story of a 50-year-old "opinionated Everyman" confined to his room by gout, laying out his thoughts and views on subjects from religion to war and literature through the conversations he has with his visitors, from a retired army major to a curate.
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2011 1:05:31 pm PDT #15154 of 28282
brillig
Oh my god, it's a story about my husband.
Volans - Jun 07, 2011 4:39:16 pm PDT #15155 of 28282
move out and draw fire
OK, Deadline officially rocks.
Rayne - Jun 07, 2011 5:32:47 pm PDT #15156 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I'm really not thrilled with all the violence Shaun does and threatens to do to people. I'm not hating the book or anything, but I think I'd like it better if I actually liked Shaun.
lisah - Jun 07, 2011 5:44:03 pm PDT #15157 of 28282
Punishingly Intricate
What is Deadline?