I read the first one...it was well-crafted but too much, somehow.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
erikaj - Mar 28, 2012 5:04:03 pm PDT #18303 of 28289
Always Anti-fascist!
Consuela - Mar 29, 2012 7:23:22 am PDT #18304 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Best author rant ever:
A guy who was not nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award goes off on the writers who were: [link]
Charlie Stross is running with it, and has even made t-shirts.
Jessica - Mar 29, 2012 7:26:43 am PDT #18305 of 28289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to say, this description of Stross as a writer had me cracking up:
Stross writes like an internet puppy: energetically, egotistically, sometimes amusingly, sometimes affectingly, but always irritatingly, and goes on being energetic and egotistical and amusing for far too long. You wait nervously for the unattractive exhaustion which will lead to a piss-soaked carpet.
Amy - Mar 29, 2012 7:29:28 am PDT #18306 of 28289
Because books.
I WANT THE T-SHIRT.
Ginger - Mar 29, 2012 7:58:38 am PDT #18307 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hmm. I read several of Christopher Priest's early books and gave up on him. His books were so progressive and modern that they were boring and incomprehensible. It's not that I think a bad writer can't have good judgment about the works of others; it's just that I can't help thinking about black pots and glass houses.
Atropa - Mar 29, 2012 8:58:45 am PDT #18308 of 28289
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I've only read The Prestige, and it made a much better movie. But oh! I love angry entitled author rants. So much fun.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 29, 2012 9:52:53 am PDT #18309 of 28289
"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
I'm surprised Priest was able to see past his ego to read the nominees' books. Perhaps it's grown transparent in tandem with its inflation?
Volans - Mar 29, 2012 11:26:30 am PDT #18310 of 28289
move out and draw fire
And The Prestige has significant weaknesses. One of the reasons it made a much better movie was that the director dropped that lame-ass modern-day descendents framing device.
I like quite a bit of Stross' writing, but Priest isn't all that wrong...
Polter-Cow - Mar 29, 2012 4:37:34 pm PDT #18311 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
An Imagined Girls Night With Katniss Everdeen, Hermione Granger, Bella Swan And Buffy Summers. Pretty great.
Bella: So Katniss, who are you going to choose between Peeta and Gale?
Katniss: Well, I hadn’t really thought about it. Leading that whole revolution thing has left me super busy and all.
Bella: But who will it be!! Which one makes you feel complete inside?
Katniss: Um, neither? It’s mostly just trying to decide whether I want to have a good hunting partner or a boyfriend who knows how to work the bread machine.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 29, 2012 5:04:27 pm PDT #18312 of 28289
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That was AWESOME!