This weekend, a headline said "Norbert Batters Mexican Coast." What does it say that my first thought was dragon, not hurricane?
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Oct 15, 2008 9:50:21 am PDT #7767 of 28414
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
sumi - Oct 15, 2008 10:48:44 am PDT #7768 of 28414
Art Crawl!!!
Norbert?
And we already have Omar building up steam too. (Or so I heard.)
What's the "P" name this year?
Ginger - Oct 15, 2008 10:51:04 am PDT #7769 of 28414
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Palin
sumi - Oct 15, 2008 11:11:31 am PDT #7770 of 28414
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
Hil R. - Oct 15, 2008 7:01:35 pm PDT #7771 of 28414
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that Ragtime also did the famous-people thing well, but that book was really ... I'm not sure of the word I'm looking for. "Stylized" comes to mind, but it's not exactly what I mean. It's like, it wasn't just random famous people inserted into the ongoing plot; the famous people were part of what held the book together.
Typo Boy - Oct 16, 2008 11:10:35 am PDT #7772 of 28414
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.
Yeah, Creation has a lot in common with Ragtime. It is *about* makers of history and expounders of new ideas, and the relations between them. Along with Vidal's quirky theory about where this intellectual revolution came from.
Barb - Oct 16, 2008 3:05:34 pm PDT #7773 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
beth b - Oct 16, 2008 6:32:00 pm PDT #7774 of 28414
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
That was great
I just sent it to a billion people - I know tey will really enjoy it
Amy - Oct 16, 2008 7:03:15 pm PDT #7775 of 28414
Because books.
plot: A device, the lack of which denotes seriousness on the part of writers.
BWAH. The whole thing was dead on.
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 2:32:43 am PDT #7776 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
clandestine science fiction novel: A work set in the future that receives a strong reception from the literary world as long as no one mentions that it is, in fact, science fiction; for example, The Road, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
I think that was my favorite.