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.
We're proud to say that the Class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history.
Jonathan ,'Touched'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Jan 24, 2008 4:55:51 am PST #4828 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Ginger - Jan 24, 2008 5:28:27 am PST #4834 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Oops. Wrong thread.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 6:03:16 am PST #4835 of 28343
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wrong Mr. Peabody, too, right Ginger?
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2008 6:20:05 am PST #4836 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think anyone believing in Morganstern means Goldman did his job very well. And he did. It's part and parcel with why I think it's one of the best movie adaptations out there. He just reached in and scooped out two of the levels of the story, and treated us like kids. Didn't bother with the familial discontent, nor the trouble that happens to our intrepid heroes after the movie ends.
Kathy A - Jan 24, 2008 7:29:22 am PST #4837 of 28343
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I flipper her off.
Did you then ask for fishy treats?
That's a great typo--I now have a wonderful mental image of a seal flipping off his trainer and then flouncing back into the pool in a snit.