But wow, I need to take more of a look around ZWN. Very cool!
Yes, this -- it's fabulous! I love consensual realities...
Re WWZ, I was just talking the other day with a historian friend about just how perfectly it works as an oral history.
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
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."
amych - May 18, 2007 11:30:31 am PDT #2658 of 28176
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Atropa - May 18, 2007 11:33:29 am PDT #2659 of 28176
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Re WWZ, I was just talking the other day with a historian friend about just how perfectly it works as an oral history.
Apparently the audio book is fantastic; there are different people for each report/history, so it really does come across as an oral history record. I'm probably going to get it to go along with the novel.
§ ita § - May 18, 2007 11:33:50 am PDT #2660 of 28176
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are 45 people in the LAPL area who've put a hold on the district's 20 copies of that book.
Darn.
amych - May 18, 2007 11:39:03 am PDT #2661 of 28176
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Apparently the audio book is fantastic
I've heard that too. I normally don't like audiobooks, but the voices are such a big part of the book that if they got them right (and when Mel Brooks is your dad, you can make a few calls to good actors...), I can see it really adding something to the experience that just having a book read aloud doesn't usually do for me.
beth b - May 18, 2007 12:04:55 pm PDT #2662 of 28176
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Loved WWZ
sumi - May 18, 2007 2:55:10 pm PDT #2663 of 28176
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - May 18, 2007 2:56:31 pm PDT #2664 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Rest in Peace, Lloyd Alexander.
Damn, first Bo Diddley and now this. Somebody's picking off my personal heroes.
I loved The Chronicles of Prydain as much as I loved anything in my childhood.
Amy - May 18, 2007 3:12:16 pm PDT #2665 of 28176
Because books.
Wait, Bo Diddley died?
§ ita § - May 18, 2007 5:25:51 pm PDT #2666 of 28176
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Somebody's picking off my personal heroes.
He was 83. I don't think he was picked off so much as went off. It's a good old age.
Jon B. - May 19, 2007 5:35:47 am PDT #2667 of 28176
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!