Buffy ,'First Date'
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."
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.
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.
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?
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.
The Second Coming is remarkably adverb free.
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?
"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.
Indubitably.
Adverbs are generally considered to be a weak construction, a way to slather lots of frosting on a mediocre cake. Good writing prefers strong, active verb constructions. Adverbs should be used........sparingly.
(See a better construction would be to say something like, "Be stingy with adverbs." The active verb makes it more vivid.)