Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.

Cordelia ,'End of Days'


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 1:35:18 pm PDT #617 of 28061
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 28061
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 28061
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 28061
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 28061
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 28061
"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 28061
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 28061
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.


Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2006 4:11:03 pm PDT #625 of 28061
Herding cats for fun

Alice Hoffman wrote a few YA books too, I believe (is too lazy to check).


Volans - Jun 07, 2006 8:25:20 pm PDT #626 of 28061
move out and draw fire

Right there with ya, Kathy.

Bookmarked "Portrait of Jennie"...but I like P-C's plot. I'm a total sucker for people going into paintings. There's a bit in one of The Dark is Rising books where Will goes into a photograph of an archaelogical dig to get a thing, and that may be my favorite image in a book ever.

I loved Hardy in high school. Voluntarily read all of them, except Jude. Went back to read Jude in my 20s and could not stand it.

That actually happened with me and a lot of authors...it's one of the reasons I think I became a completely different person in college.