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.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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."
Jessica - Feb 09, 2012 7:46:21 am PST #17757 of 28261
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Beverly - Feb 09, 2012 9:34:00 am PST #17758 of 28261
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 28261
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 28261
"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 28261
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 28261
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 28261
"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 28261
Hey. New board.
I loved the Tripods. Way more than the Triffids.
Consuela - Feb 10, 2012 2:41:44 pm PST #17765 of 28261
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.
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2012 9:21:04 pm PST #17766 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've just picked out, like, 20 books to take to Half-Price tomorrow. Some duplicates, some books I know I'll never read, some books I read for class and didn't actually like, some gifts from friends...it's making me twitchy to think about getting rid of them, but...they're just taking up space, really.