MM made me laugh until I snorted. NOT a pretty sound.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
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."
Scrappy - Jan 15, 2008 9:32:40 am PST #4721 of 28343
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 15, 2008 9:33:54 am PST #4722 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
OMG! Too funny! Perhaps MM's line belongs in the weird meara-provided bestiality romance novel from the first F2F!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 15, 2008 9:53:25 am PST #4723 of 28343
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
BWAH!
Maybe CE is now going to compare the burden of scrutiny her work is now undergoing to being swathed in smallpox-ridden blankets.
If she can find some previous author who described what that feels like, anyway...
Toddson - Jan 15, 2008 10:45:39 am PST #4724 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
(sputter)
MM, you had me face down on my desk giggling uncontrollably (luckily, I wasn't drinking anything at the time, or my computer would have been toast ... ed).
Strega - Jan 15, 2008 11:43:18 am PST #4725 of 28343
Nine Inch Nails lyrics are difficult to work in, eh?
Well, Yeats was kind of a pain. But I just walk the road mimicking what I hear, as children mimic.
Allyson - Jan 15, 2008 12:06:43 pm PST #4726 of 28343
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Man. I just read the whole wank. Now am full. May need pepto.
I don't even know where to BEGIN with how awesome this lady is.
Toddson - Jan 15, 2008 12:49:39 pm PST #4727 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm still at the OMGWTF ... ferrets?!? stage.
And the guy who wrote the ferret article has chimed in.
DebetEsse - Jan 15, 2008 1:41:34 pm PST #4728 of 28343
Woe to the fucking wicked.
This incident needs to be memorialized in our language. She needs a Law or a Principle or a verb. I don't even know what it would refer to, but it should exist.
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2008 2:32:36 pm PST #4729 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And the guy who wrote the ferret article has chimed in.
That article needs to be read. It's pretty awesome. He details the entire dialogue, which is a post-coital discovery of ferrets for no apparent reason:
Shiona then tells Shadow Bear how she once read about ferrets in a book she took from the study of her father. "I discovered they are related to minks and otters. It is said their closest relations are European ferrets and Siberian polecats," she says. "Researchers theorize that polecats crossed the land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska, to establish the New World population."
Ohmygod that is so hot.
Finally:
Wow, that is some bad dialogue. It stands out as clunky and awkward even by the standards of romance novels. That's because Edwards didn't write it. I did.
brenda m - Jan 15, 2008 2:41:53 pm PST #4730 of 28343
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's a great article. And I can't even call the slams at romance novel writing gratuitous, considering the man just slogged through an Edwards.