So anyway ... books are good! Yay reading!
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
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."
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:37:32 am PST #4824 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ouise - Jan 24, 2008 4:42:52 am PST #4825 of 28343
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 28343
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 28343
"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 28343
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 28343
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 28343
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 28343
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.
brenda m - Jan 24, 2008 5:15:52 am PST #4832 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
I always wished George MacDonald Fraser's tales of the "discovery" of the Flashman diaries was true, but I think I kind of always knew it probably wasn't. Or at least that's how I remember it. Luckily, that was before the internets so I was never exposed.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 5:26:30 am PST #4833 of 28343
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Mr. Peabody"
Although that name is guranteed to set off associations in people of a certain age.