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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."
Stephanie Meyer has published a new Twilight book
It's not Midnight Sun or another side story. It's a retelling of the first book....genderswapped.
We have been afflicted with the romance of clumsy human boy Beau and ridiculously attractive vampire girl Edythe.
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Yeah, I got nothing.
There's not a known, safe method of inducing aphasia, is there?
I dunno, Twilight itself seems to render people incoherent most of the time.
Or did you mean "amnesia"?
McKinley's Sunshine and Rose Daughter are also on sale - $1.99.
Ohhh... and The Hero and the Crown!
Or did you mean "amnesia"?
Amnesia would only protect the individual reader. Aphasia, induced in the right person, could protect millions. (And it'd be a two-birds-with-one-stone deal, as preventing Meyer from writing would also prevent James!)
I don't know, I think it's kind of nifty, an author's fanfiction about her own work getting published. Very ourobouros, publishing will eat itself.
I'm not going to read it, but hey, a lot of things get published that I have no intention of reading. The existence of this one at least amuses me.
And it will probably make some people pause and go "I wonder what Story X would be like if we swapped genders there . . . huh. That's kind of cool." Making people think about story structure is a good thing.