How is Stephen King able to complete books so quickly?
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
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."
le nubian - Apr 11, 2012 2:44:41 am PDT #18414 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
erikaj - Apr 11, 2012 5:22:36 am PDT #18415 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
dude's a machine and takes only three days off a year.Yes, I read "On Writing"...it was entertaining, but I didn't find much I could use in it. Even he admits the path he followed starting out(writing fiction for skin mags) doesn't really exist anymore.
Connie Neil - Apr 11, 2012 5:34:55 am PDT #18416 of 28293
brillig
I liked "On Writing" for the biographical elements more than the writing advice. His advice wasn't anything revelatory or unique, but his blunt honesty about how fame screwed him up was fascinating. And, of course, the story of The Accident. "I had just been run over by one of my own characters."
edit: I've always loved his essays. His tale of his son's Little League season that took them to the Maine state finals was wonderful. I didn't realize it was him while I was reading it in the New Yorker, till I finally remembered who Owen King was the son of and realized the significance of the state finals allowing "an obscure local author" to throw out the first pitch.
erikaj - Apr 11, 2012 5:39:25 am PDT #18417 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, that was interesting. And I really do enjoy an addiction narrative so I'm always down for junkie stories.
hippocampus - Apr 11, 2012 6:32:40 am PDT #18418 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
John Sargent on DOJ v. Macmillan : [link]
Strix - Apr 11, 2012 8:14:02 am PDT #18419 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I like Enid and Fran quite a bit, too. And in the Sparrow Hill Road stories (I'm only halfway done -- work calls) there's a connection, since Rose comes from Buckley Township in the 40's, and refers to babysitting at the Healy house!
I like "On Writing" for its autobio nature, interspersed with thoughts on writing. One thing I like about King is his no BS approach. There's no "THIS is the one true way to write."
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 8:30:25 am PDT #18420 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And in the Sparrow Hill Road stories (I'm only halfway done -- work calls) there's a connection, since Rose comes from Buckley Township in the 40's, and refers to babysitting at the Healy house!
What! Cool!
Atropa - Apr 11, 2012 9:53:36 am PDT #18421 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
One of the weird perks of being a semi-celebrity: new authors send me copies of their books! Delilah Dawson sent me Wicked as They Come, and Kate Lock sent me an ARC of God Save the Queen. So I'm set for silly genre reading for the week.
And speaking of silly genre reading: Come ON, who has read the last Parasol Protectorate book! I need to geeble more about it!
Steph L. - Apr 11, 2012 9:55:44 am PDT #18422 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And speaking of silly genre reading: Come ON, who has read the last Parasol Protectorate book! I need to geeble more about it!
Aw, damn it! It's sitting on my bedside table. I'll start it tonight.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 10:00:57 am PDT #18423 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It will be a couple weeks till I get around to it!