The sex is not always good: [link]
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 10:50:42 am PDT #7584 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Typo Boy - Sep 29, 2008 11:49:49 am PDT #7585 of 28404
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 often think, explicit sex is great if it fits into the story, but sometimes less explicit is sexier. Think of some of the lines of Sappho remembering how a lover was "folded in my arms" and the "familiar heat". Some of the most erotic lines in English language. and Sappho was perfectly willing to get very explicit indeed - she just knew when less was more.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2008 11:51:11 am PDT #7586 of 28404
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Too much explicit sex turns into written choreography--it's always more fun to watch the dance.
Fay - Sep 29, 2008 2:24:41 pm PDT #7587 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I recently read The Good Fairies of New York and absolutely loved it.
I didn't love it as much as I expected to, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I mean, I did like it, but everything felt a little distant. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, or something.
beth b - Sep 29, 2008 2:42:07 pm PDT #7588 of 28404
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
standing next to fay. Liked it, just didn't love it.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2008 4:07:46 pm PDT #7589 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm in the process of loading reading material onto my phone (lo, how far we have come...), and I was looking for some recommendations of texts that would be on gutenberg.org.
Ideas?
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 4:24:09 pm PDT #7590 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Captains Courageous, White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Dracula, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Up from Slavery, Sherlock Holmes and, of course, The Education of Henry Adams.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2008 4:36:05 pm PDT #7591 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, that will occupy quite a few ER visits! Thanks.
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 4:40:40 pm PDT #7592 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They're all books I love.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2008 4:44:25 pm PDT #7593 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I seem to remember being very disturbed by Pudd'nhead Wilson as a child--does it have conjoined twins in it?