After you read Alice - pick up a copy of The looking Glass wars
I talked to the author of that at Wondercon!
After I read Alice, I'm actually reading Through the Looking Glass.
This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.
Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 5:42:49 pm PST #4424 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
beth b - Nov 30, 2007 5:46:19 pm PST #4425 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Alice and Through the looking glass are one to me. Even though the second was written under heavy influence . ( I thought that as an innocent child)
DavidS - Nov 30, 2007 6:16:51 pm PST #4426 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the first time. I swear, it's like he just made shit up as he went along.
He totally does. When I was reading the British cult kids book Uncle I noticed the same thing. "He's just making shit up!" Then realized that this is a bit part of the bagginess of Narnia (here's a faun, here's a giant sized swashbuckling rat...), and also a part of the Harry Potter books.
I've concluded that "Just Making Shit Up" is an actual British fantasy tradition.
Kathy A - Nov 30, 2007 6:21:34 pm PST #4427 of 28260
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I wrote a paper in Victorian Lit on "Alice's Search for Identity." The paper was mostly bullshit, but it got an A+ from the prof, so I'm not complaining.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 30, 2007 6:29:07 pm PST #4428 of 28260
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
(this is before she gest the sex powers)
This may be my favorite typo ever.
After you read Alice - pick up a copy of The looking Glass wars
I'm going to assume this isn't the LeCarre novel.
beth b - Nov 30, 2007 6:35:18 pm PST #4429 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2007 6:39:12 pm PST #4430 of 28260
brillig
Here's a link to my Buffyverse/Anita Blake crossover.
I couldn't help myself . . .
. . . not that I tried . . .
beth b - Nov 30, 2007 6:55:37 pm PST #4431 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
that was fun , connie, thanks
Hil R. - Nov 30, 2007 9:27:00 pm PST #4432 of 28260
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I did a paper in high school on how Carroll, who was a math professor, twisted all the laws of math and logic around in Alice. Fun paper to write. (Also, P-C, you might enjoy the logic book he wrote. It's published as a cheap paperback now. It was meant as a sort of introductory logic textbook, sort of "Everyman's Logic." The sorts of things he uses for the examples are great. I think there were a few directly from a few sceness in Alice.)
erin_obscure - Nov 30, 2007 9:30:28 pm PST #4433 of 28260
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I wrote a 60 page paper in a college seminar on the dismal representations of women in the Alice books. Really, really bleak. He seemed pretty intent on convincing little Alice that no good can come of growing up and becoming a woman....