I've been meaning to post a link to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessismore.
I posted that link last weekend: in Movies, I think. Isn't it WONDERFUL?
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'The Message'
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."
Consuela - Feb 09, 2012 7:20:27 am PST #17756 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jessica - Feb 09, 2012 7:46:21 am PST #17757 of 28333
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It is! Sorry I missed your link in Movies, I would have talked it up.
It's so sad and beautiful and WONDERFUL. If it doesn't win I will be shocked and dismayed.
Beverly - Feb 09, 2012 9:34:00 am PST #17758 of 28333
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thanks for that link, ita--that is sad and wonderful.
Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2012 3:40:13 am PST #17759 of 28333
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
DavidS - Feb 10, 2012 4:30:22 am PST #17760 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
RIP John Christopher.
The Tripod trilogy had a big effect on me. One of my favorite series growing up. I remember riding in a car with a classmate and we were comparing books we were reading. I pimped The White Mountains and The City of Gold and Lead to him, and he suggested I read this book I'd never heard of called The Hobbit.
Kate P. - Feb 10, 2012 8:13:21 am PST #17761 of 28333
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I read those! I remember liking them, though not much about them has stuck with me. I sometimes mix him up with John Wyndham, who wrote Day of the Triffids. (Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
Fred Pete - Feb 10, 2012 9:11:13 am PST #17762 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
(Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
Neither would defeat the Midwich Cuckoos.
Ginger - Feb 10, 2012 9:15:39 am PST #17763 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tripods are taller than triffids.
This is one of those times when an author dies, and I feel bad I never got around to thanking him for his work.
Gris - Feb 10, 2012 12:50:08 pm PST #17764 of 28333
Hey. New board.
I loved the Tripods. Way more than the Triffids.
Consuela - Feb 10, 2012 2:41:44 pm PST #17765 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I was shocked to learn John Christopher was dead, mostly because I was shocked to learn he was still alive. I read him when I was quite young, and they felt old then. I had assumed he'd died sometime in the 70s at the latest.