I love the guy, but those books are dense.
True dat.
You're right. He's evil. But you should see him naked. I mean really!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Miracleman - Jan 25, 2008 4:31:09 am PST #4856 of 28343
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
megan walker - Jan 25, 2008 6:51:02 am PST #4857 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's a very common literary technique. In fact, the earliest novels were often epistolatory novels which operated under that conceit - that you'd stumbled across a stash of letters in your grandmother's attic.
Far too common nowadays I'd say. I'm really tired of it. Just tell a story already.
Aims - Jan 25, 2008 7:17:31 am PST #4858 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The only way that device could be better is if the filmmaker made the reading of the letters a montage to "Halleluiah".
Jon B. - Jan 25, 2008 7:30:11 am PST #4859 of 28343
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I can't believe no one's yet mentioned the Griffin & Sabine books.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2008 7:42:18 am PST #4860 of 28343
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
How could anybody look at the name "Mr. Peabody" in a book featuring time travel and not realize that he's a dog ?
Volans - Jan 25, 2008 7:48:28 am PST #4861 of 28343
move out and draw fire
I can't believe no one's yet mentioned the Griffin & Sabine books
And Dictionary of the Khazars (which Sox and I were recently talking about).
And Borges. Who apparently is one of Karl Rove's favorite authors (hah!)
Jessica - Jan 25, 2008 8:05:18 am PST #4862 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And Dictionary of the Khazars
LOVE!
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 8:05:43 am PST #4863 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
Laurie King uses that same conceit for her Mary Russell series.
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 8:05:44 am PST #4864 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
Didn't need to be said twice.
sumi - Jan 25, 2008 8:09:15 am PST #4865 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Do you guys remember what the upperlimit of books you could catalog with a free Library Thing Account?
(I mean to upgrade, but I keep forgetting!)