In other words, possibly palatable, but only as comedy?
Wesley: Hey. Hey, Gunn. Is something weird going on? … Charles, you just peed on my shoes. Gunn: I'll be damned. That's weird.
'Life of the Party'
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."
Fred Pete - May 10, 2012 9:07:31 am PDT #18655 of 28306
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hil R. - May 10, 2012 9:14:29 am PDT #18656 of 28306
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The author also made certain that the readers knew that Scottish immigrants weren't like those other immigrants. Scottish immigrants had fought against the English for their freedom, and thus were practically American already.
Consuela - May 10, 2012 10:14:23 am PDT #18657 of 28306
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
there's also a scene where Elsie tells some little black children that, in heaven, they'll be white
OH MY GOD.
t cringes away in horror
Connie Neil - May 10, 2012 10:33:10 am PDT #18658 of 28306
brillig
Oh, Elsie's a Mormon after all. No, wait, at that time, blacks could only get to heaven as someone's servant.
Typo Boy - May 10, 2012 10:33:20 am PDT #18659 of 28306
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.
there's also a scene where Elsie tells some little black children that, in heaven, they'll be white
I'd forgotten that last. Did Elsie actually use the words "light and delightsome", or did she avoid the Mormon phrasing of that particular bit of folk racism?
[Connie X-post]
Connie Neil - May 10, 2012 10:33:46 am PDT #18660 of 28306
brillig
Mormon bigotry x-post!
JZ - May 10, 2012 10:43:37 am PDT #18661 of 28306
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have big huge DDL love - the author seems very aware of the potential for creepiness, as does DLL himself; he goes to the trouble to go to her school and meet her properly so they can know each other in real life and it won't be one-sided or mostly imaginary. And, of course, her letters are whip-smart and snarky about the unthinking privilege of religious leaders and teachers and rich people, and at one point she decides she's going to become a socialist, spends the weekend researching which kind is best, and sends DDL a letter beginning, "Hooray! I'm a Fabian!"
I mean, really. Who wouldn't fall in love with her?
Atropa - May 10, 2012 10:48:03 am PDT #18662 of 28306
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I am not surprised that Jilli loved Night Circus. The first chapter just sounds like her.
I want to LIVE in that book. I want more stories in that world, and am a little sad that the author has said she's not going to write a sequel.
hippocampus - May 10, 2012 11:00:56 am PDT #18663 of 28306
not your mom's socks.
Woah. Amazon just put Harry Potter in the Kindle lending library. [link]
Hil R. - May 10, 2012 11:25:05 am PDT #18664 of 28306
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
According to Elsie, Mormons were dangerous, were certainly not Christian, and were tricking innocent young girls into entering polygamous marriages. There was one book where some of Elsie's kids and grandkids went out west to visit a mine or something that one of them had inherited, and they saved some girl from the Mormons.