I am chilled.
that doesn't sound good.
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'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."
hippocampus - Jun 09, 2008 2:15:09 pm PDT #6078 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Volans - Jun 09, 2008 3:49:43 pm PDT #6079 of 28370
move out and draw fire
So I was just wikipedia-dipping and discovered that one of the two stories in Soon I Shall Be Invincible is a complete rip of the Tomorrow Woman storyline.
Amy - Jun 09, 2008 4:16:15 pm PDT #6080 of 28370
Because books.
the King short story mentioned above may be a lit equivalent of an ita link
I am chilled.
And I'm compelled to read it now.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 09, 2008 4:40:00 pm PDT #6081 of 28370
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
After I read a King short story where rats in caves mutated to eyeless rat I was done with King short stories. I have a giant mutation squick.
hippocampus - Jun 09, 2008 4:47:12 pm PDT #6082 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
mutation squick.
not the squick here.
meara - Jun 09, 2008 8:19:34 pm PDT #6083 of 28370
Anyone read the new Kushiel book yet? I'm about 15 pages from the end, and kinda wondering [edit: all about tone/pacing, nothing spoilery re: actual events] if her editor sent it back to her saying "You need to wrap this up more quickly", or if she just got bored, or what. It's...oddly paced. I feel like all of her other books have been so intricately plotted and DENSE, and this book feels like the first 90%...well, no. It's not that a lot didn't HAPPEN. And yet, it somehow didn't feel as though it did. And then the last 50 pages is wrapping it all up verrrrry quickly. Not *quite* in a "I'm going to deus ex machina wrap this all up", really, any more than any of her other books. Just...hmmm. I can't tell if it's that I CARE less, or what.
Miracleman - Jun 10, 2008 4:53:58 am PDT #6084 of 28370
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
So I was just wikipedia-dipping and discovered that one of the two stories in Soon I Shall Be Invincible is a complete rip of the Tomorrow Woman storyline.
So it was boring, pointless and unoriginal.
Volans - Jun 10, 2008 7:38:21 am PDT #6085 of 28370
move out and draw fire
So it was boring, pointless and unoriginal.
Yep. 50 points from Slytherin.
DavidS - Jun 10, 2008 8:56:20 am PDT #6086 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Raq, what Tomorrow Girl storyline are you referencing? I couldn't find it in Wikipedia.
Volans - Jun 10, 2008 2:05:34 pm PDT #6087 of 28370
move out and draw fire
Tomorrow Woman:
She was created jointly by Professor Ivo and Professor T. O. Morrow to destroy the newly formed JLA. She became a member based on her telekinetic abilities which she claimed were the result of a "mutant 4 lobed brain." In actual fact, she was a living bomb designed to go off at a specified moment and kill the entire JLA. Eventually though, she denied her purpose, discovering the concept of freedom that her creators had deliberately left out of her programming. She sacrificed herself in order to stop a futuristic war machine by triggering an EMP bomb located in her body, which was originally intended to wipe the brains of the League. It was revealed that Morrow had seen this coming and was thrilled by it. He and Ivo had frequently argued about who had done the better work on her. Ivo thought that the body he had made, which was realistic enough to fool even Superman's heightened senses and x-ray vision, was the true work of genius. Morrow proved him wrong however, as the brain he himself had created was sophisticated and "human" enough to discover free will, even though the concept had not been included in her original programming.
As I recall, the cyborg chick in "Soon" was built by the mad scientist (albeit put together from parts), and was a bomb designed to take out the supers...