Ok, so I am in Minneapolis, right? Guess where I might get to go tomorrow??
WALNUT GROVE!!!
Redemption of Nellie Olsen, here I come!!
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'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."
Aims - Aug 15, 2008 8:42:25 am PDT #6981 of 28387
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Kathy A - Aug 15, 2008 8:52:42 am PDT #6982 of 28387
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cool! I know that the underground house on Plum Creek is long gone (I don't even think a depression is left in the bank), but there should be some tourist-y things to do there.
Hil R. - Aug 15, 2008 9:32:03 am PDT #6983 of 28387
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I remember reading that you can go visit where the underground house used to be -- the people who own the land have a path and a sign there.
DavidS - Aug 16, 2008 2:25:58 pm PDT #6984 of 28387
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Looking for Ann of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic.
Which contains a link to Oops! NY Times reviews which were completely off the mark on enduring classics.
CaBil - Aug 19, 2008 12:11:36 pm PDT #6985 of 28387
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Joss Whedon is among the 'experts' used in the trailer for Brad Meltzer's upcoming title, Book of Lies.
Polter-Cow - Aug 19, 2008 12:18:49 pm PDT #6986 of 28387
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which sounds pretty cool. I didn't know he wrote novels.
P.M. Marc - Aug 19, 2008 12:32:27 pm PDT #6987 of 28387
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Meltzer? Yeah. He writes thrillers. They're so-so. Amusing fanboy moments (chacters with obscure-ish comic book names), less amusing gender issue stuff (needs a whap with a clue stick at times), writing varying between the solid and the clunky, but never hitting sublime.
Rucka's novels are better.
JZ - Aug 19, 2008 12:41:52 pm PDT #6988 of 28387
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Rucka's novels are better.
Of course they are.
::drifting off into haze of Rucka nostalgia::
erikaj - Aug 19, 2008 12:45:42 pm PDT #6989 of 28387
Always Anti-fascist!
I know this one! Gotham Central, right? Batman meets H:LOTS(almost)
Steph L. - Aug 19, 2008 3:38:59 pm PDT #6990 of 28387
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Which sounds pretty cool. I didn't know he wrote novels.
There's a preview for Book of Lies at the end of the latest issue of Angel (whichever issue we're up to by now). It seems...intriguing, but I'd rather read it as a comic. I'm not crazy about his writing style. It's a little too Dan Brown at times for me. t edit Okay, I'm basing that solely on the preview snippet I read, and nothing else, but it still packed a lot of heavy-handed description into a few preview pages.