Gaiman has written about the lexicon thing, too: [link]
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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."
DXMachina - May 06, 2008 10:21:25 am PDT #5704 of 28348
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 10:36:27 am PDT #5705 of 28348
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That made me miss Tim Hunter.
Neil Gaiman? Not an ass, and one can read his non-fiction with relaxation and ease.
Aims - May 06, 2008 10:58:45 am PDT #5706 of 28348
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Just finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
Seen the movie a dozen times, but never read the book.
Sigh.
Kathy A - May 06, 2008 11:02:26 am PDT #5707 of 28348
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I do love that book. I first read it for Book Club in 7th grade (it was the favorite book of Mr. Clarke, the club's moderator), and saw the movie soon after.
It's one of the best movie adaptations ever, IMO. There was an additional scene added for the movie that I truly love, though--when Scout and Jem are laying in bed and Scout asks about their mother, all while Atticus sits on the porch and listens to them. So touching!
Ginger - May 06, 2008 11:02:59 am PDT #5708 of 28348
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Isn't it wonderful? "Scout, stand up. Your daddy is passing by."
Aims - May 06, 2008 11:04:11 am PDT #5709 of 28348
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm sitting here wanting to cry because the scene where Scout finally sees Boo in Jem's room keeps coming to mind. The look on her face when she finally saw him, "Hey, Boo."
Honey, I've changed my mind. Next girl we have is being named Jean Louise.
Kathy A - May 06, 2008 11:07:47 am PDT #5710 of 28348
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Mary Badham was so incredible in that movie.
JZ - May 06, 2008 11:12:31 am PDT #5711 of 28348
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Gregory Peck had a story he loved to tell about the first day of filming... Harper Lee was on the set, sitting quietly and watching those first bits of film roll, and after his very first appearance as Atticus (walking across the porch or down the walk or some such minor bit of business) he noticed that she was puddling up. "Are you all right, Miss Lee?" he asked, thinking Damn, I'm good! Check me out!
And she said through her tears, "Oh, Mister Peck, it's just... you have a nice little potbelly just like my daddy did!"
Aims - May 06, 2008 11:13:55 am PDT #5712 of 28348
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Bwahahaha!!
Volans - May 06, 2008 11:46:14 am PDT #5713 of 28348
move out and draw fire
OSC than I say that they see a lot of sublimated homosexual subtext in his writing.
OOOhhhh yeah. With a heaping helping of pedophila. The book about the golden-haired boy singer made me really worry if being Mormon was causing OSC to repress a little too much.
OSC was being sarcastic, saying that anyone can claim anything is plagerism. Gaiman, who I always thought did get a bit plagarized (Harry Potter is lots like Tim Hunter), seems to be taking the high road and being quite decent about it all.
I think mostly it's just that JKR is astronomically rich, and seems to be beating someone up for money. The fact that that someone is a fan makes it worse.