I love the guy, but those books are dense.
True dat.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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 28483
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 28483
"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 28483
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 28483
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 28483
"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 28483
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 28483
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 28483
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 28483
The status is NOT quo.
Didn't need to be said twice.
sumi - Jan 25, 2008 8:09:15 am PST #4865 of 28483
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!)