Wasn't it? I applauded.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
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 10:38:38 am PST #18002 of 28267
move out and draw fire
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2012 8:16:48 pm PST #18003 of 28267
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 28267
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 28267
"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 28267
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 28267
"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 28267
"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 28267
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Second Coming is remarkably adverb free.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 28, 2012 12:28:17 pm PST #18010 of 28267
"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
A poetry teacher who didn't like descriptive language? I mean, I understand that overuse can make for some florid junk, but did he really think poetry should read like an inventory list?
Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2012 12:45:07 pm PST #18011 of 28267
brillig
"while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a curious volume of forgotten lore."
OK, poetry, bad example.
But you'll get my adverbs and adjectives when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.