they want to laud their hipsterness
This one.
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Volans - Feb 24, 2012 5:14:57 pm PST #17982 of 28266
move out and draw fire
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.
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.
DavidS - Feb 26, 2012 8:34:44 am PST #17991 of 28266
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. That's too funny.
I thought Snow Crash was derivative when I first read it (right when it came out) because it was obviously playing in Gibson's playpen.
Props for naming the main character Hiro Protagonist, though.