plot: A device, the lack of which denotes seriousness on the part of writers.
BWAH. The whole thing was dead on.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'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."
Amy - Oct 16, 2008 7:03:15 pm PDT #7775 of 28769
Because books.
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 2:32:43 am PDT #7776 of 28769
“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 28769
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
brillig
"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 28769
“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.