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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."

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§ ita § - Feb 24, 2012 5:07:16 pm PST #17981 of 28266

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

People can't believe she'd never heard of Battle Royale.

Seriously? Do they have any perspective on how many people had heard of it in America before The Hunger Games took off? Answer, not tons, and it's not like there's any expectation for an American YA author to be up on Japanese fiction/manga. I can't work out if it's because people have such a low expectation of humanity that they just think that people are lying, and aren't looking at the plausibility of the statement, or that they want to laud their hipsterness or what...

Volans - Feb 24, 2012 5:14:57 pm PST #17982 of 28266

move out and draw fire

they want to laud their hipsterness

This one.

Sophia Brooks - Feb 24, 2012 5:15:51 pm PST #17983 of 28266

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I still don't know what Battle Royale is-- it makes me think of Pulp Fiction and the scene about the "royale with cheese".

askye - Feb 24, 2012 5:36:05 pm PST #17984 of 28266

Thrive to spite them

There's a bunch of people who'd never heard of The Hunger Games until the movies started being made. On a break today I was talking to 2 co workers, one is just reading the book. She'd never heard of it until the other co worker started talking about the movie trailers.

le nubian - Feb 25, 2012 3:27:56 pm PST #17985 of 28266

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Have you all read this review of Ellen Ullman's latest book? It intrigues me. Makes me want to read it.

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Volans - Feb 26, 2012 8:10:19 am PST #17986 of 28266

move out and draw fire

There's a bunch of people who'd never heard of The Hunger Games until the movies started being made.

Like my boss, who is an archer. She's excited for Brave but hadn't heard about THG.

I actually just had the Battle Royale discussion with the guy who originally loaned me the manga, back in the day. He's committed to his stance that Collins blatantly ripped off BR. Of course, this is the guy who just read Snow Crash last year and proclaimed it "derivative."

Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2012 8:14:42 am PST #17987 of 28266

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Of...what? Didn't that book basically introduce the concept of online avatars?

Consuela - Feb 26, 2012 8:18:54 am PST #17988 of 28266

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Actually, I think William Gibson did it first, but I think Raq's person hasn't realized how old Snow Crash is.

Connie Neil - Feb 26, 2012 8:19:03 am PST #17989 of 28266

brillig

It's kind of like people not liking LotR because "It's just like all the other fantasies." They don't understand that some books come first.

Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2012 8:30:07 am PST #17990 of 28266

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Actually, I think William Gibson did it first, but I think Raq's person hasn't realized how old Snow Crash is.

But I think Snow Crash was the first one to use the word "avatar," right?

Holy crap, 1992?? I thought it was later in the nineties.

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