Psst, Aimee. CLOVERFIELD'S not real either.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 4:29:56 am PST #4822 of 28483
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:34:01 am PST #4823 of 28483
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pbbbllt.
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:37:32 am PST #4824 of 28483
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So anyway ... books are good! Yay reading!
Ouise - Jan 24, 2008 4:42:52 am PST #4825 of 28483
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Hey Aimee, when I read The Princess Bride it didn't even occur to me that the stuff about Morganstern and the lawsuit and all that was fictional. I can't remember how I ended up finding out the truth. I still get an unpleasant feeling when I think about the book. Sort of icky and betrayed.
Luckily, there's a movie!
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:47:24 am PST #4826 of 28483
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hell, I didn't even read any of the abridgements! I skipped them all thinking, "I don't want to read this jackass talk about whatthefuckever! I want to get to the FireSwamp!"
Now I have to start all over!
Ouise, I'm so glad I'm not alone.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 4:47:38 am PST #4827 of 28483
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, Richard Bachman is really Stephen King.
(Something I actually knew about 10 years before it became public due to family connections with King and his family).
Sophia Brooks - Jan 24, 2008 4:55:51 am PST #4828 of 28483
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
When I read Kate Chopin's The Awakening, I thought the woman at the end was going for a swim and would come out of the Ocean and have a better life, but she was really drowning herself. Also, it took me several chapters to figure out that Buck in the Call of the Wild was a dog, not a person.
Volans - Jan 24, 2008 5:07:23 am PST #4829 of 28483
move out and draw fire
I thought Carolyn Keene was a real person until, oh, college.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2008 5:09:37 am PST #4830 of 28483
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Luckily, there's a movie!
Heh - in the movie (also written by William Goldman), the book is also written by S. Morgenstern.
But seriously, nobody should feel stupid for making that mistake - it's a tribute to how well Goldman pulls it off that so many people fall for it.
flea - Jan 24, 2008 5:13:20 am PST #4831 of 28483
information libertarian
I love how To Say Nothing of the Dog starts off with everybody in the bombed out cathedral and Ned keeps referring to "Mr. Peabody" as a member of their crew and it isn't until the end of the chapter that it becomes clear that Mr. Peabody is a dog.
Also, just for the record? Adso's chonicle of what happened at the monastery in The Name of the Rose was not discovered by Umberto Eco on a cruise with an ex-lover.