Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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."


-t - Sep 19, 2014 4:24:00 pm PDT #22684 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Second try 13/15. All the same questions. The ones I got wrong I got wrong the first time, and I knew I got wrong, but I couldn't remember how I had guessed before.


bennett - Sep 19, 2014 4:41:54 pm PDT #22685 of 28343

I figured that anything with a conjunction or any kind of clause was probably not Hemingway. It worked pretty well.


sj - Sep 19, 2014 4:59:07 pm PDT #22686 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

12 out of 15. If the sentence had any personality at all, I picked children's book. t /not a Hemingway fan


Tom Scola - Sep 20, 2014 8:18:28 am PDT #22687 of 28343
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Brooklyn Book Festival Bingo: [link]


Burrell - Sep 21, 2014 8:51:19 pm PDT #22688 of 28343
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

14 out of 15. I think my favorite part was the little Papa Bear graphic.


Atropa - Sep 22, 2014 5:29:28 pm PDT #22689 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Do I want to cancel my amazon pre-order of Prince Lestat and special-order a copy from the NOLA bookstore that will have autographed editions? I am dithering.


Cass - Sep 22, 2014 6:47:47 pm PDT #22690 of 28343
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Yes, you do. Or you're just going to be stalking eBay after the fact.


Strix - Sep 23, 2014 12:18:10 am PDT #22691 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Yep, Jilli. You know you'll regret it id you don't.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2014 5:26:45 am PDT #22692 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

Is there an edition that includes Rice's flamewars with Amazon.com reviewers?


Strix - Sep 23, 2014 8:07:45 am PDT #22693 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

HA! Good one, Matt...