Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'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."
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.
megan walker - Feb 11, 2012 7:49:29 am PST #17767 of 28261
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
If it helps, P-C, think how much pleasure they might give to someone else.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2012 8:00:04 am PST #17768 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Some of these might give pleasure to someone else. Some didn't give me much pleasure. But I hadn't actually thought about that part, so thanks.