Basically.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
Cass - Mar 08, 2012 10:53:19 am PST #18159 of 28282
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Toddson - Mar 08, 2012 12:18:22 pm PST #18160 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Although humans can eat - and have eaten - each other, would the same hold true for vampires? (too gross? I'll delete if so)
And, tangentially, I was in the bookstore and noticed that Katniss is on the covers of Entertainment Weekly, People, and Glamour.
Typo Boy - Mar 08, 2012 12:26:25 pm PST #18161 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But you can't maintain a population of humans totally on numans. At the least some of them have to eat something else, and really even if you maintain a pop of grain fed humans for the cannibals, pure cannibalism is not healthy physically. Arithmetically at least the first point applies to vampires.
Though vamps, as someone said, may be no smarter than humans. When the fangs distend, they drain all the blood from the brain.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 12:37:56 pm PST #18162 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stopped reading Piers Anthony when I was about 15 because he started making me feel really uncomfortable. He's the only author who I turned against so violently that I immediately went and sold all the copies I owned of his books--probably 8 or so Xanth books at the time. One too many glimpses of panties, I think. I just felt creeped out.
But I didn't know all this: [link]
That's just gross. I'm really glad I didn't get past Xanth. Really quite glad.
Jesse - Mar 10, 2012 12:54:03 pm PST #18163 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, so gross.
bennett - Mar 10, 2012 1:10:59 pm PST #18164 of 28282
Amazon has the one-volume Lord of the Rings available in Kindle format for just under half price ($9.99 instead of $20.00) - [link]
smonster - Mar 10, 2012 1:31:32 pm PST #18165 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Whoa. Disgusting. I had no idea.
le nubian - Mar 10, 2012 1:59:13 pm PST #18166 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have only read Incarnations of Immortality and that weird book that took place on another planet with silicone-based life forms. None of this pinged me in IoI, but I haven't read those books in 30 years.
I am right and truly disgusted now though.
-t - Mar 10, 2012 2:05:13 pm PST #18167 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I did stop reading him because his stuff started to seem kind of creepy, but I had no idea it got that explicitly bad. Ick.
Ginger - Mar 10, 2012 2:10:35 pm PST #18168 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I stopped reading him because I met him and he was severely creepy, and friends had stories of more creepiness. He seems to live in his own self-righteous world of creepy.