Ooh, We Can Get Them For You Wholesale is fantastic. Some people I went to school with actually converted it into a short play for one of our directing classes, and apparently getting the rights from Gaiman's people was a big pain, but they sent them the finished script and (from what they say, anyway) Neil Gaiman really liked it. I thought it was very well done.
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
zuisa - Aug 14, 2011 11:46:57 am PDT #16029 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Polter-Cow - Aug 14, 2011 12:08:15 pm PDT #16030 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's my favorite Gaiman short story.
sumi - Aug 15, 2011 7:34:15 am PDT #16031 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Foxtrot on A Song of Ice and Fire.
bennett - Aug 15, 2011 7:37:03 am PDT #16032 of 28293
Most of Georgette Heyer's e-books are on sale this week for $1.99 for her birthday. List from Amazon.
Note that Sylvester is not yet listed at the sale price.
Consuela - Aug 15, 2011 7:56:05 am PDT #16033 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Most of Georgette Heyer's e-books are on sale this week for $1.99 for her birthday.
oh, fun! What shall I buy, there's too much to pick from! I got The Black Moth recently, and I have Masqueraders and The Grand Sophy in paperback.
Anyone have suggestions?
Scrappy - Aug 15, 2011 8:34:22 am PDT #16034 of 28293
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Cotillion, Talisman Ring, Frederica and False Colors are some of my faves.
Atropa - Aug 15, 2011 9:17:00 am PDT #16035 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Most of Georgette Heyer's e-books are on sale this week for $1.99 for her birthday.
Oooh. Time to go pick up These Old Shades, and maybe The Talisman Ring.
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2011 10:30:18 am PDT #16036 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ooh, here's something to rile people up:
Overrated: Authors, critics, and editors on "great books" that aren't all that great.
Dwight Garner, book critic for the New York Times
The book I'll reluctantly fire from my canon is Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. Every five years or so I pick up Walter Starkie's 1957 translation, which my wife has enthusiastically devoured twice, and, struck by Cervantes' lively and multijointed prose, get a bit excited. In the margins I'll write, "He's the world's first great food writer," underlining a passage on Page One in which he goes on about pigeon, tripe, and salted beef and mutton. Genius! Here's the man who popularized the phrase "the proof's in the pudding"! The momentum slowly fades; the blood drains from my face; was that a news alert on my iPhone? I'm asleep on the couch, deeply ashamed but contentedly drooling, by Page 37.
Rayne - Aug 15, 2011 10:49:30 am PDT #16037 of 28293
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I'm about a quarter of the way into Patrick Rothfuss' In the Name of the Wind and I am loving it so much!
Consuela - Aug 15, 2011 10:51:13 am PDT #16038 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ooh, here's something to rile people up:
That's a standard Slate technique: slap a contrarian headline on an otherwise uncontroversial article, to gather links. Or on an article that takes a contrarian stand.
I mean, this is the website that gave us a two page article on the horrors of pie.