Forks is real. We drove through it Labor Day weekend on one of the rare sunny days.
ETA, Forks: [link]
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
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."
Susan W. - Jan 23, 2008 2:17:44 pm PST #4808 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
P.M. Marc - Jan 23, 2008 2:26:35 pm PST #4809 of 28343
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
La Push, apparently also a location in the books? Also real.
(One of my leftover textbooks from high school has a random sketch of WA state with a little dot for La Push, because a friend was headed there for the weekend, and I was asking him where the hell it was. The answer is "Kinda near Forks, let me draw it.")
Gris - Jan 23, 2008 5:08:35 pm PST #4810 of 28343
Hey. New board.
Nice. Looks pretty. I bet their website has gotten a lot more visitors since the books became popular.
Volans - Jan 23, 2008 5:16:30 pm PST #4811 of 28343
move out and draw fire
There was a caller on NPR today that the announcer said was from "Snow-Amish" Washington. I'm guessing Snohomish.
Am reading a "post-cyberpunk" anthology. Am wondering how Bruce Sterling ever became a writer. Clunk-ee.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2008 3:35:30 am PST #4812 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Am wondering how Bruce Sterling ever became a writer. Clunk-ee.
Heh - I have the same thought every time I come across him.
hippocampus - Jan 24, 2008 3:56:28 am PST #4813 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
second that. er. third.
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:12:04 am PST #4814 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I am, at the best of times, a pretty smart chick, but a little slow on the uptake on things that are seemingly *really* obvious. For some reason (I suspect lots of pot use in the 90's), my brain sometimes just doesn't GET IT when presented with a situation. That being said, I have a really stupid question about The Princess Bride, its author, and William Goldman. I just read it. The 25th anniversary hardcover. I chose it for one of my texts for my Lit class this term.
Am I understanding correctly that all of the abridgement is written by William Goldman as a commentary on the story that he wrote but put the name S. Morgenstern on? And that all of the crap about being a legal fight to write the abridgement for Buttercup's Baby is just that - crap? There is no S. Morgenstern Family Estate that wants Stephen King to abridge it? And Goldman is trying to ... I don't know ... buy more time to write the whole thing?
I are so confused. I feel like I'm the outsider on a really funny joke that ruining it for everyone else cause I are clueless.
Miracleman - Jan 24, 2008 4:13:41 am PST #4815 of 28343
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
As far as I know the entire book was written by William Goldman and S. Morgenstern is fictional.
I would be greatly surprised to find out differently.
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:14:40 am PST #4816 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Well where the hell were you last night when I was confused? I could have looked stupid in our home without 1500 people watching me be dumb.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2008 4:16:31 am PST #4817 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There is no S. Morgenstern, and no "original" version of the book. The "abridged" version is the only one, and was written entirely by William Goldman.