Too much explicit sex turns into written choreography--it's always more fun to watch the dance.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2008 11:51:11 am PDT #7586 of 28404
brillig
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?
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2008 4:50:12 pm PDT #7594 of 28404
brillig
Jane Austen is also on gutenberg, as is Bronte, if you're into such.
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 5:14:43 pm PDT #7595 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Twain started writing the book about conjoined twins, but he said the other characters took over the book. He extracted the conjoined twins into a story that's included as an appendix. The seams of the previous story still show in some places. I still like the book, because of the way it plays off doubles, race and public perception.
eta: Also, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a geek.