snork!
Gregor Samsa:
Holy crap, I'm a vermin thingie!
(He DIES...eventually.)
THE END
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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 2:46:26 pm PST #4755 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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."
beth b - Jan 20, 2008 7:03:34 pm PST #4762 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Ok - I just picked up the first Libba Bray. While I won't be opening the book tonight I am confused - she looks like my kinda book - why hadn't I heard of her of her until she showed uo in the thread a couple of days ago?
Strix - Jan 20, 2008 7:06:12 pm PST #4763 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Has anyone ever read Cecilia Dart-Thornton? I checked out a couple of her books from the library, based on rave reviews...and I don't like her at all. I just kept reading with a huge feeling of her trying WAY too hard to be Lyrical and Poetical...and I LIKE formal court-fantasy...but I just felt like I wanted to take her thesaurus away from her and beat her with it and scream "Show! Don't tell!"
I dunnno wht it irritated me so much, but I had to vent. I feel better. Anyone?
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2008 7:11:15 pm PST #4764 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
why hadn't I heard of her of her until she showed uo in the thread a couple of days ago?
Gaps in the hivemind exist, is my guess.