I'm thinking the prolem of fandom sucking the big white cis cock might be better rectified by paying for Octavia Butler books so publishers might be inclined to print works by demographically similar authors.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
Trick ,'First Date'
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."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 25, 2012 6:31:45 pm PDT #19438 of 28343
"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
Polter-Cow - Jul 25, 2012 6:34:50 pm PDT #19439 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Man, I just started listening to the Room audiobook, and it's so well done it's creepy. They have multiple actors, so one person is doing Jack's narration, and then another person does Ma's dialogue, and the whole effect is like I'm listening in on them in the Room. How is Ma's dialogue formatted in the book? Because there don't seem to be dialogue tags; she just speaks sometimes. Also, I presume all the objects are capitalized? Rug, Plant, Table, Cabinet, etc?
hippocampus - Jul 25, 2012 6:43:56 pm PDT #19440 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
Wait - pirated copies of Butler off my link? I'm confused.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 6:45:06 pm PDT #19441 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously. It's not like TPTB is sitting there with a stopwatch counting hits on the pirated ebooks and then throwing money at Spelman;'s English Lit department.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 6:45:51 pm PDT #19442 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
pirated copies of Butler off my link? I'm confused.
No, I said it was something I came across months ago.
hippocampus - Jul 25, 2012 6:46:55 pm PDT #19443 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
Ah. Phew.
EpicTangent - Jul 26, 2012 8:34:54 am PDT #19444 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Just finished Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects. Can't remember if the rec was from here or EW, maybe both. Not at all what I was expecting. Good, very evocative. Imagery still lingering with me. Not sure why I was expecting straight-up murder mystery, but definitely more layers than I was expecting.
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 8:41:32 am PDT #19445 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I dug it too, Epic.
EpicTangent - Jul 26, 2012 9:17:21 am PDT #19446 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Yes! You said much more coherently what I felt about the book!
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 9:56:47 am PDT #19447 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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Pretty cool! And here's an article.
"I made an honest effort to do a Cormac McCarthy character," Davis says, 'but you just can't work with 'Man. Medium. Two eyes.'"