YES, that was it (looking at the cover on Amazon). Dear GOD!
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
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."
meara - Jan 09, 2008 7:17:06 pm PST #4642 of 28342
DavidS - Jan 09, 2008 7:36:42 pm PST #4643 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
YES, that was it (looking at the cover on Amazon). Dear GOD!
31 people gave it five stars.
::is boggled::
meara - Jan 09, 2008 7:41:04 pm PST #4644 of 28342
one of the top reviews is all "and there's NOT bestiality!! It's METAPHORIC!!!!!" Um, sure.
P.M. Marc - Jan 09, 2008 7:42:41 pm PST #4645 of 28342
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The lynx LICKED HER TIT.
How is that a metaphor?
DavidS - Jan 09, 2008 7:54:55 pm PST #4646 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How is that a metaphor?
Uhm....it's uh. I got nothing.
Jon B. - Jan 10, 2008 4:41:00 am PST #4647 of 28342
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Speaking of beastiality...
Has anyone read "Bear" by Marian Engel? [link] FAQWife insists it's a beautifully written short novel, but I've been kinda scared to read it. From the blurb on the back cover:
... a mousy librarian is summoned to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of Colonel Jocelyn Cary. Cary, as the reader quickly learns, has a number of secrets, but the most surprising -- and the most enduring -- is a bear. By page twenty, our librarian has met the bear and "wondered if the bear would be good company." The bear is indeed good company. Intimate company. Shocking company.
Susan W. - Jan 10, 2008 7:18:49 am PST #4648 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So, the Cassie Edwards plagiarism kerfuffle has now hit the AP wires: [link]
In the thread about it at Smart Bitches, a visitor who jumped all over them for being so mean said, "When you write 100 books, or even ONE, then we’ll talk.”
A few comments down, Nora Roberts weighs in:
*raises hand*
Okay, let’s talk. Plagiarism is copying another’s work and calling it your own. Minor paraphrasing doesn’t change the offense.
What's surprised me, though, is that other authors have actually defended her. I don't get it. It blows my mind that ANYONE would think it's acceptable.
I mean, I sometimes worry with my alternate history WIP that I'm simultaneously ripping off Naomi Novik (alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars, though there be no dragons in mine), Bernard Cornwell (one of my major characters is an officer raised from the ranks, though he has a vastly different personality than Richard Sharpe), and Patrick O'Brien (I'm debating on letting another major character, a real historical character and amateur musician, be seen playing the violin to unwind because it's just so Aubrey/Maturin). But at least I know I'm not copying those authors' words! I may not have the world's most original ideas, but at least I have my own words to put them into!
Dana - Jan 10, 2008 7:20:24 am PST #4649 of 28342
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's hit Fandom Wank too, where many people are displeased with Jennifer Cruisie's response.
P.M. Marc - Jan 10, 2008 7:32:33 am PST #4650 of 28342
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
A few comments down, Nora Roberts weighs in:
Which, you know, much as she lost me as a reader with the craptastically researched Irish Thoroughbred (fine, fine, I hold grudges that are irrational), is made of win, and may make me pick up another of her books one of these days.
It's hit Fandom Wank too, where many people are displeased with Jennifer Cruisie's response.
Which was made of fail, sadly.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 7:38:05 am PST #4651 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have no interest in reading Nora Roberts's books, but she sounds pretty damn awesome as a person here.