Catcher in the Rye
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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 - May 23, 2012 4:01:56 pm PDT #18915 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
chrismg - May 23, 2012 8:11:39 pm PDT #18916 of 28333
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
As Gaiman (basically) says in the introduction, there's a reason the title is plural.
Ugh Ugh Ugh. That is really foul. Foul enough that I regret ever recommending the story to anyone, and I think it's been permanently tainted for me.
§ ita § - May 24, 2012 4:56:49 am PDT #18917 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What makes it feel like Violence Against Women as opposed to violence with female victims?
erikaj - May 24, 2012 6:39:59 am PDT #18918 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Chris, I still read James Ellroy(Even though it makes me feel kinda dirty) so Neil Gaiman would have to rip out a hooker's beating heart and eat it, before I'd think "Argh...too sexist!" He doesn't, does he?
Strix - May 24, 2012 7:19:02 am PDT #18919 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OMG, finally got to Blackout by Mira Grant last night.
SO. GOOD. Such a satisfying conclusion. I'll be reviewing it formally in the next couple of days, but oh, it was good. And fun.
And our own P-C is in the dedication. I teared a teeny bit and squeed when I saw it. Yay, P-C!
I'm so excited about the movie option for the trilogy. Dan and I were playing "Cast the Book" last night. (We were also playing it for the HBO American Gods series, too. WE R GEEK COUPLE.)
hippocampus - May 24, 2012 8:16:07 am PDT #18920 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
PC - I tweeted this, but didn't report it here. I was at a scifi/epidemiology panel over the weekend where the Newsflesh trilogy was specifically called out as "getting the medical science right." Thought you'd enjoy that.
Strix - May 24, 2012 8:33:00 am PDT #18921 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
When I interviewed Seanan, I was totally impressed by her meticulous research. I mean, she has the CDC on speed-dial.
Atropa - May 24, 2012 9:27:24 am PDT #18922 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
What makes it feel like Violence Against Women as opposed to violence with female victims?
Yeah, I'm curious about this, too. I liked the story, and it didn't ever strike me as misogynistic or anything. A touch understated and wonderfully creepy for that, but not Violence Against Women.
Polter-Cow - May 24, 2012 9:29:59 am PDT #18923 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And our own P-C is in the dedication. I teared a teeny bit and squeed when I saw it. Yay, P-C!
I'm so excited about the movie option for the trilogy. Dan and I were playing "Cast the Book" last night.
And who are your picks? Seanan wants Allison Scagliotti for George and Jason Dohring for Shaun. There's some damn good photomanips for it.
I was at a scifi/epidemiology panel over the weekend where the Newsflesh trilogy was specifically called out as "getting the medical science right." Thought you'd enjoy that.
Nice!
I mean, she has the CDC on speed-dial.
They actually fangirled her when she called because of "The Black Death."
In other news, I don't understand the appeal of The Dark Is Rising and I hope the series gets better?
chrismg - May 24, 2012 9:31:35 am PDT #18924 of 28333
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I've been trying to work out why I'm having such a strong response. Part of it is definitely the unpleasant surprise of finding something so ugly in a story I'd enjoyed, by a writer I admire.
Beyond that, a big part of it is that we have so little context for what happens in LA, and what little we do casts it in a definitely sexual light. There's the fact that Tink is the one who contacts the narrator, making what happens implicitly her fault. There's the parallel it's implied we should draw with what happened in the Silver City, where the person who left their lover was killed for it.
And there's the fact that, unlike the angel murderer, the act of killing seems to have no effect on the narrator. Either he's in a fugue state, or this literally means nothing to him, and he's lived ten years since with no indication it's something he thinks about.
Is it possible for necrophiliac rape to be non-political?
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