I'm impressed that you got it, JZ, considering I got so much of the basic plot wrong.
Lindsey: Why--why did you... Lorne: One last job. You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. You never will be. Lindsey: You kill me? A flunky?! I'm not just...Angel...kills me. You...Angel... Lorne: Good night, folks.
'Not Fade Away'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:08:44 pm PDT #615 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Jun 07, 2006 1:23:07 pm PDT #616 of 28095
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Well "Guy falls in love with a woman in a painting" is plenty enough to narrow it down. Plus, the film version was just on TMC a few weeks ago (well worth checking out, BTW), so my hazy memories of gobbling the print version down as an 8th grade bibliomaniac had been very recently refreshed.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:35:18 pm PDT #617 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well "Guy falls in love with a woman in a painting" is plenty enough to narrow it down.
Yeah, but apparently, that's not even how it goes. It's like The Time Traveler's Husband, except it ends with the dude painting the chick. And a tidal wave for some reason.
Anne W. - Jun 07, 2006 1:39:35 pm PDT #618 of 28095
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:41:02 pm PDT #619 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Didn't James Patterson take a break from thrillers and write a romance?
And John Grisham had that one departure, The Painted House, right?
Kathy A - Jun 07, 2006 2:52:42 pm PDT #620 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.
Are you kidding me?! Why have I never realized that those two E.B. Whites were the same person?
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 2:55:01 pm PDT #621 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Matrix has you.
Ginger - Jun 07, 2006 3:04:43 pm PDT #622 of 28095
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Why have I never realized that those two E.B. Whites were the same person?
Also essayist, influential New Yorker columnist and co-author with James Thurber of the hysterical Is Sex Necessary?
Sheryl - Jun 07, 2006 3:52:43 pm PDT #623 of 28095
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Terry Pratchett has written YA and childrens' books in the Discworld universe, in addition to the regular novels.
-t - Jun 07, 2006 4:10:07 pm PDT #624 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And YA books not in the Discworld universe.