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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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DavidS - Apr 30, 2008 3:22:30 pm PDT #5588 of 28344

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Awww, Flannery O'Conner could've been a Buffista:

O'Connor described herself as a "pigeon-toed only child with a receding chin and a you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you complex." When O'Connor was five she taught a chicken to walk backwards, and it was this that led to her first experience of being a celebrity. The Pathé News people filmed "Little Mary O'Connor" with her trained chicken, and showed the film around the country. She said, "That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me. It's all been downhill from there."

§ ita § - Apr 30, 2008 3:23:58 pm PDT #5589 of 28344

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Flannery O'Conner could've been a Buffista

Take that back. I was never that miserable.

amych - Apr 30, 2008 3:25:13 pm PDT #5590 of 28344

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you

New tag! And she's dead, so she can't say no.

sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 3:31:41 pm PDT #5591 of 28344

Nevada Barr's mysteries. Murder and mayhem in the national parks, featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon. She does a good job of capturing the atmosphere of the locations.

meara - Apr 30, 2008 3:36:30 pm PDT #5592 of 28344

I definitely second Nevada Barr's, though I warn you that several of them will really make you want to VISIT the national parks!!

amych - Apr 30, 2008 3:37:23 pm PDT #5593 of 28344

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

... and this is a problem, why?

(I mean, in the immediate, in-the-hospital time frame, yes, but...)

JZ - Apr 30, 2008 3:43:35 pm PDT #5594 of 28344

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Take that back. I was never that miserable.

She managed to write some memorably, spectacularly miserable characters, but Flannery herself wasn't miserable. I read all 700-some odd pages of her collected letters, and she really does come across as a Buffista before Buffistas were: snarky, sly, occasionally outright goofy, and equally capable of being mockingly delighted by the awfulness of kitsch and moved by the emotion behind it; full of geeky passions and delights; interested in the world outside her town and the universe inside her own mind. Sometimes a little terse when the lupus was excruciating, but often darkly witty even then.

Eloquent as Nutty and ita combined in her cold dissection of lousy writing and lazy logic; as simultaneously passionate and wry as Cindy writing about her faith; as irritated by, occasionally resentful of her dependency on, and kindred-spirit snarkily proud and loving of her mother as erika; tender in her notation of the green and growing and fruiting products of her land as Betsy; fiendish as MM in her elaborate scorn of hypocrites and monstrous fools; loyal to her friends as any Buffista, willing to sprint around the world for them when she couldn't walk to her own front door. And able to deliver a biting, delicious quip while she was at it.

For someone with one fuck of a lot to be miserable about, O'Connor was somehow really not so miserable at all.

t /just a teeny bit defensive of my biggest literary girlcrush

sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 3:57:44 pm PDT #5595 of 28344

will really make you want to VISIT the national parks!!

So very true! And if you've already been to one of those featured, you'll be all "OH! I remember that!"

Amy - Apr 30, 2008 3:59:07 pm PDT #5596 of 28344

Because books.

Ah, Big Spankable Asses. I'm so ... proud I was a part of that. ::slinks away in shame::

Bustin' got my vote. What even *is* that? Jesus.

Kink isn't too bad, really (although did Teppy say it was historical? Because, yeah, not getting that vibe *at all*) ... if you don't mind text-as-HUGE DICK imagery.

Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2008 4:14:14 pm PDT #5597 of 28344

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Sarah Shankman.

Sharon McCrumb (the funny ones)

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