Okay, this gave me a wicked chuckle.
“Excerpt from The Offutt Guide to Literary Terms”
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Barb - Oct 16, 2008 3:05:34 pm PDT #7773 of 28597
“Not dead yet!”
beth b - Oct 16, 2008 6:32:00 pm PDT #7774 of 28597
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 28597
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 28597
“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.
Tom Scola - Oct 17, 2008 2:36:25 am PDT #7777 of 28597
They pay me in WOIMS
deconstructionism: A moderately successful attempt by the French to avenge the loss of Paris as the global center of literature.
Bwah!
Toddson - Oct 17, 2008 4:08:45 am PDT #7778 of 28597
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Funny. Another, a review from Mrs. Giggles of a fantasy/erotic ... novel? "... is like the pornographic movie version of Walt Disney's Pocahontas, only with added talking animals - many of them, all of them thankfully incapable of singing - as well as and various engorged body parts doing things that will never be done in a Walt Disney cartoon."
Polter-Cow - Oct 17, 2008 4:38:12 am PDT #7779 of 28597
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 6:17:17 am PDT #7780 of 28597
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yesterday's Jeopardy had a category of Unfinished Hugo Award Winning Titles--you had to fill in the blank. I missed a few of the "easier" clues (Asimov's "A ____ with Rama," for example), but got the two at the bottom of the category: Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must ____", which no one knew, and Miller's "A ____ for Liebowitz", which is one of my favorite books ever and which I was happy to see the champ get correct.
Typo Boy - Oct 17, 2008 7:51:32 am PDT #7781 of 28597
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.
Wasn't A Rendevous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke, not Asimov?
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 8:07:40 am PDT #7782 of 28597
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yeah, that might have been it. All I knew was I didn't know it!