plot: A device, the lack of which denotes seriousness on the part of writers.
BWAH. The whole thing was dead on.
That's my girl, large and in-charge. Okay, teensy-weensy and in charge.
Gunn ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Amy - Oct 16, 2008 7:03:15 pm PDT #7775 of 28414
Because books.
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.
Tom Scola - Oct 17, 2008 2:36:25 am PDT #7777 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 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.
Wasn't A Rendevous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke, not Asimov?
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 8:07:40 am PDT #7782 of 28414
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yeah, that might have been it. All I knew was I didn't know it!
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2008 8:08:14 am PDT #7783 of 28414
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"Rendezvous with Rama"! With the regularly scheduled end-of-mission orgy! Possibly not the main thing Clarke wanted me to take from the story, but I was young and prurient.
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 8:08:49 am PDT #7784 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Interesting article in The New Yorker about artistic prodigies vs. late bloomers. [link]
Ha!
Leaving it up just because it's funny.
Try this one- the article is Late Bloomers by Malcolm Gladwell.