Mormon bigotry x-post!
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
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."
Connie Neil - May 10, 2012 10:33:46 am PDT #18660 of 28306
brillig
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.
Hil R. - May 10, 2012 11:41:45 am PDT #18665 of 28306
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The part about everybody being white in heaven was just one thing in a mostly unremarkable list of ways that heaven would be wonderful. Like, nobody's hungry, and there's no sickness, and everybody's white, and the angels sing all day. It was even odder for the way it was just thrown in there, like of course, everybody would see this as a good thing.
DavidS - May 10, 2012 11:49:44 am PDT #18666 of 28306
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It was even odder for the way it was just thrown in there, like of course, everybody would see this as a good thing.
What's the point of having white privilege if it doesn't extend into the afterlife?
Toddson - May 10, 2012 12:14:38 pm PDT #18667 of 28306
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I wonder if, since everyone's white, white privilege would still be valid. Or would it come down to white, whiter, whitest? (sorry ... my brain's fried from answering stupid questions)
DavidS - May 10, 2012 12:19:27 pm PDT #18668 of 28306
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wonder if, since everyone's white, white privilege would still be valid.
More like in Heaven everybody's privileged to be white.
Burrell - May 10, 2012 12:37:05 pm PDT #18669 of 28306
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Now we look at something like Jacob's fixation on Bella's baby and go, ewwww. Or at least some of us do...
My unfortunate mental association with Jacob and that absurdly-named baby is Angelica Bell, because her father's lover looked on her as a baby and swore he'd marry her one day. And then he did.