That's awesome! I'm still floored that her dialogue made it past editors without anyone ever saying, "this sounds like you copied it out of a reference book."
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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."
Laga - Jan 18, 2008 2:14:48 pm PST #4752 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
brenda m - Jan 18, 2008 2:29:20 pm PST #4753 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
Smart Bitches is being so good to us lately:
The Collected Work of Jane Austen, Ultra-Condensed by Christina Carlson and Peter da Silva
Female Lead: I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.
Male Lead: I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know.
(They find out.)
THE END
More here: [link]
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2008 2:32:29 pm PST #4754 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, Book-A-Minute Classics. I remember those.
Laga - Jan 18, 2008 2:46:26 pm PST #4755 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
snork!
Gregor Samsa:
Holy crap, I'm a vermin thingie!
(He DIES...eventually.)
THE END
flea - Jan 19, 2008 7:33:04 am PST #4756 of 28343
information libertarian
Cassie Edwards and the ferrets made Wait Wait Don't Tell Me today! The guesser got it wrong.
Laga - Jan 19, 2008 7:42:48 am PST #4757 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I love it when Wait Wait picks up on something I first heard about here at b.org
hippocampus - Jan 20, 2008 3:39:33 am PST #4758 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex:
"You'll marry your mother..."
"No I won't!"
"well, ya did."
(not mine - saw it in Cassie Edwards' to-use list)
DavidS - Jan 20, 2008 11:00:21 am PST #4759 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. Cell phone novels are huge in Japan
Whatever their literary talents, cellphone novelists are racking up the kind of sales that most more experienced, traditional novelists can only dream of.
One such star, a 21-year-old woman named Rin, wrote “If You” over a six-month stretch during her senior year in high school. While commuting to her part-time job or whenever she found a free moment, she tapped out passages on her cellphone and uploaded them on a popular Web site for would-be authors.
After cellphone readers voted her novel No. 1 in one ranking, her story of the tragic love between two childhood friends was turned into a 142-page hardcover book last year. It sold 400,000 copies and became the No. 5 best-selling novel of 2007, according to a closely watched list by Tohan, a major book distributor.
Consuela - Jan 20, 2008 11:45:31 am PST #4760 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2008 5:57:46 pm PST #4761 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."