Yeah, it was that he read it last year, and assumed Stephenson was late to the game for "metaverse" and "avatar" and, you know, Google Earth.
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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 27, 2012 10:00:38 am PST #18000 of 28266
move out and draw fire
hippocampus - Feb 27, 2012 10:10:43 am PST #18001 of 28266
not your mom's socks.
and, you know, Google Earth
that reference in REAMDE was excellent authorial revenge.
Volans - Feb 27, 2012 10:38:38 am PST #18002 of 28266
move out and draw fire
Wasn't it? I applauded.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2012 8:16:48 pm PST #18003 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can I have book-identifying help? The first Tarzan I was exposed to (confusingly enough) was a meta book that presumed that all of ERB's work one was consistent and true history, and tried to string it all together and make sense of it.
I seem to recall later learning that it was by a pretty prominent fantasy or sci fi author, but I can't remember who it was, and it's not like you can googl...oh, wait...you can.
Never mind. Consider this instead a random recommendation for the book Tarzan Alive by Philip Jose Farmer. It's really pretty good, if memory serves. Of course, Wikipedia is telling me some interesting erection-ridden things about sequels that I'm nervous to investigate...anyone know if it's worth it?
Burrell - Feb 27, 2012 8:39:02 pm PST #18004 of 28266
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The original Tarzan is a shockingly bad book. It's got more WTF than an acid trip.
DavidS - Feb 27, 2012 8:41:49 pm PST #18005 of 28266
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of course, Wikipedia is telling me some interesting erection-ridden things about sequels that I'm nervous to investigate...anyone know if it's worth it?
I really loved Tarzan Alive but there's diminishing returns going back to the Wold-Newton-verse. But you'll always remember the gray eyes.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2012 9:05:47 pm PST #18006 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah the bits with the guys who can only get it up in mortal combat and only ejaculate when they kill--sue me for limited imagination, but how many times can you go to that well, porn or no.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 28, 2012 5:42:01 am PST #18007 of 28266
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My understanding is that A Feast Unknown was meant to be satire as well as porn, but yeah, not the most enthralling read by the time the pages hit triple digits.
Though I suppose it's better than the Gor books, which stretched Norman's pleasure slave kinks over what, 30 books?
DavidS - Feb 28, 2012 12:04:04 pm PST #18008 of 28266
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jack Finney (most famous for writing Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and also Time and Again) wrote a short story titled Cousin Len's Magical Adjective Cellar.
It magically removes adjectives and adverbs from writing leaving “the most crisp, sharp writing you’ve ever seen”.
I had a poetry teacher who just hated adverbs. Was right on the verge of outright banning them from our writing until he started reciting to himself, "Turning, Turning in a widening gyre..." and had to admit they had some use.
Ginger - Feb 28, 2012 12:27:30 pm PST #18009 of 28266
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Second Coming is remarkably adverb free.