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Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Consuela - Nov 29, 2020 8:54:43 am PST #26239 of 27932
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Toddson - Nov 30, 2020 7:25:48 am PST #26240 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Years ago, I was talking with a co-worker and the subject of what we were reading came up. When I asked him what he was reading, he told me it was old and kind of obscure and I'd probably never heard of it. I pushed and he finally said that he was reading Scaramouche ... and I quoted the opening line to him (which surprised him no end). (It IS one of the great opening lines: "He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad")
Calli - Nov 30, 2020 7:57:49 am PST #26241 of 27932
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I finished the fourth novella in the Murderbot series yesterday and dove right into book five. Murderbot is such a delight! I love spending time in their PoV.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2020 9:26:09 am PST #26242 of 27932
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scaramouche! Great movie too with Stewart Granger, with a famous duel across the back of theater seats.
Toddson - Nov 30, 2020 10:10:45 am PST #26243 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes, indeed. And if I remember correctly, it opened with the line from the book (seriously - when a book hands you a great line, why not use it?).
megan walker - Nov 30, 2020 10:15:37 am PST #26244 of 27932
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I pushed and he finally said that he was reading Scaramouche ... and I quoted the opening line to him (which surprised him no end). (It IS one of the great opening lines: "He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad")
That is a good line.
For my challenge this year it was slim pickings as I didn't read as much as I usually do or want to. And not a lot of first lines stood out. A few that did were in even more obscure books than some of those I selected and I do try to pick stuff people might have read or at least heard of. You can find the answers here. I like the Shirley Jackson one. Pretty good for a first novel.
-t - Nov 30, 2020 1:48:16 pm PST #26245 of 27932
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Mmm, murderbot
meara - Nov 30, 2020 4:22:22 pm PST #26246 of 27932
I’m very much looking forward to trawling the Yuletide stories this year to give me something to do for solo Christmas
aurelia - Nov 30, 2020 6:25:07 pm PST #26247 of 27932
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
You can find the answers here.
Oh, I have read one of those! #7, but it was 20+ years ago. That line did not stick with me.
I was looking at some of the previous lists and I hadn't read it then, but if The Library Book had been on the list this year I totally would've gotten it.
Volans - Nov 30, 2020 6:27:32 pm PST #26248 of 27932
move out and draw fire
I literally just heard about Murderbot this week. Is now on my Kindle.
We used to have a game that was sort of Balderdash plus first lines. You'd get a title and author, and everyone wrote the first and last lines, except for the person who drew the card; they wrote the real ones. Points for anyone who knew and wrote the real ones...points for getting people to guess yours was real. If I didn't know the first and last lines, I would try to write something that would be as hilarious and offensive as possible...so I guess Balderdash plus first lines plus Cards Against Humanity.