Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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."


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.


Typo Boy - May 06, 2008 12:24:54 pm PDT #5714 of 28348
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.

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.

Well the fan in question seems to be a major league asshole. Took a lot of peoples work and a (claimed) non-profit site and turned it into a for-profit exercise. The other end of that stick is that lexicons are one area where "Fair use" really does including really large amounts of source material. The law on this I don't know. Gaiman seems to think it a legal grey area. My position is that grey areas in copyright law should generally be settled in terms of putting things into public domain. Creative work builds on other creative work. The more we shrink the creative commons the more we slow the long term ability to progress technically or artistically.

Copyright is a lot more rigorous than in was in 1968. Real compensation for most artists has not noticeably increased . I don't think the rate of artistic and technical innovation has increased either. Not that we have not had a lot of innovation. But I don't think strengthening copyright law accelerated it in any way. (To be clear I don't think anything accelerated. We are not progressing any faster than in 1968; progress continued; the rate of change did not increase.)


megan walker - May 06, 2008 12:31:14 pm PDT #5715 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

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.

Also, the fact that she admits to having used the site herself when she was too lazy to look something up does not win her any sympathy points from me.