My friend's book is in that! That being The Reapers are the Angels.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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."
Gris - Aug 06, 2011 4:48:12 am PDT #15865 of 28293
Hey. New board.
zuisa - Aug 06, 2011 12:03:21 pm PDT #15866 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Before I went to go work on the ship, my friend gave me her copy of A Soldier of the Great War to borrow, as I'd liked Winter's Tale so much. I didn't have a lot of time to read on the ship, and it was a LOT of book to get through, so it didn't become a top priority.
I finally finished it! I didn't love it quite as much as I loved Winter's Tale, but wow, Mark Helprin can certainly tell a story.
Has anyone else read it?
Volans - Aug 08, 2011 5:09:37 am PDT #15867 of 28293
move out and draw fire
Also, everyone knows zombies arose in response to Fox News.
I hadn't really thought about it like that, but you're right!
sumi - Aug 08, 2011 1:13:19 pm PDT #15868 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Real life places that inspired literary classics.
Steph L. - Aug 08, 2011 1:17:46 pm PDT #15869 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That's cool! I admit, though, that I was hoping for a real-life Manderley.
Polter-Cow - Aug 08, 2011 1:25:36 pm PDT #15870 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wow, the end of OOTP is such a clusterfuck. It's like ten pages of Dumbledore saying HOLY SHIT I FUCKED UP I'M SORRY DUDE.
Consuela - Aug 08, 2011 1:30:27 pm PDT #15871 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
like ten pages of Dumbledore saying HOLY SHIT I FUCKED UP I'M SORRY DUDE.
Which would be more meaningful in retrospect if he didn't just continue on with the information-withholding and failure to trust Harry with his plans and ideas for the next year.
Aims - Aug 08, 2011 1:35:19 pm PDT #15872 of 28293
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I kind of look at Dumbledore's failure to tell Harry anything the same way I look at Gandalf just not summoning the eagles to fly Frodo over to Mount Doom, drop the ring, and get home in time for tea. It sucks for the character, but it's the catalyst for the series.
Consuela - Aug 08, 2011 1:38:44 pm PDT #15873 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It sucks for the character, but it's the catalyst for the series.
I do think it's thematically consistent, since so much of the series is basically hammering in that Harry cannot rely on any adults or adult institutions to protect him. However, I distrust plots that rely on someone not passing along important information--to me that's the sign of a weak plot.
Aims - Aug 08, 2011 1:43:28 pm PDT #15874 of 28293
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Harry cannot rely on any adults
I get what you're saying with this and to a great extent, agree with it. But I do think that the exception is Molly Weasley. She tries like hell to protect Harry from himself like no other adult in the series does - most of them are content to sit back and let him be The Boy Who Lived and do whatever the heck he wants in the name of Saving Wizardingkind. Molly just wants him to be a kid. And because of that want, provides him a soft - and relatively safe - place to land and a place to be a kid/teenager.
to me that's the sign of a weak plot.
Agreed.