I was in AP English senior year, so I feel like my teacher would have encouraged us to do it otherwise
Oh, yeah, if Mr. Berryhill had had a way to show off his star students, he'd have done it.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2006 10:34:26 am PST #1590 of 28404
brillig
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 2:23:38 pm PST #1591 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I graduated high school in '79, so maybe I predate these things?
I just checked the website -- Academic Decathlon started in 1981.
Sheryl - Nov 15, 2006 2:39:20 pm PST #1592 of 28404
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
The only knowledge-based competition I can recall from my high school was the Math team. Not quite the same as the stuff you folks mentioned...
beth b - Nov 15, 2006 8:10:25 pm PST #1593 of 28404
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok. if you ever get the chance to see Nancy Pearl, the author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, speak, GO. very entertaining. even if you are a really picky reader she 's got stuff for you. and Besides - she is the only Librarian I know , other than BatGirl, that has her own action figure.
and the action figure
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 16, 2006 3:48:14 pm PST #1594 of 28404
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Random nugget I stumbled upon that's old but perhaps not old news.
Anthony Minghella's rather excellent film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Play.
Tom Scola - Nov 20, 2006 7:46:24 am PST #1595 of 28404
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Against the Day,” reads like the sort of imitation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that a dogged but ungainly fan of this author’s might have written on quaaludes. It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex.
Review is by Michiko Kakutani, so adjust your rhetorical filters accordingly.
Ginger - Nov 20, 2006 8:37:44 pm PST #1596 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just saw that Jack Williamson died [link] I had started to hope he was going to live forever. He was such a nice guy.
§ ita § - Nov 25, 2006 5:26:25 pm PST #1597 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does Terry Goodkind write good books? I mean, is there an overarching context that can make one excuse these snippets of evil chicken?
beth b - Nov 25, 2006 8:38:23 pm PST #1598 of 28404
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I have no idea where those quotes cam from . I adored the first few books.( at least the first two ) but while I read the ( 4th?) I wanted to throw it across the room. I was bored and frustrated. so I might have missed the parts about the chicken
Strix - Nov 26, 2006 6:39:16 am PST #1599 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, I remember the evil chicken! I think it actually was in book one. I read the first 4 or 5 books, but then they just got terribly tedious and uninteresting, and I am a lover of the long series of books.