Jack definitely is one, whatever one is.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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 - Nov 06, 2008 4:20:18 am PST #7879 of 28597
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2008 4:40:02 am PST #7880 of 28597
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've somehow missed whether there's a name for a male Mary Sue. I'm thinking of the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
MacGyver.
Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2008 5:16:01 am PST #7881 of 28597
Ann, that's a ferret.
the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
I'm surprised nobody named Buckaroo Banzai.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 5:21:33 am PST #7882 of 28597
brillig
I'm surprised nobody named Buckaroo Banzai.
Well, there was no mention of surgery or playing an instrument.
Dana - Nov 06, 2008 6:39:44 am PST #7883 of 28597
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Gary Stu is the other one I've heard.
amych - Nov 06, 2008 6:45:22 am PST #7884 of 28597
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, I hear Gary Stu or Larry Stu more often than Marty -- my guess is that the rhyme makes it work better for people.
Or, you know, "protagonist".
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 9:00:09 am PST #7885 of 28597
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
In shockin news, I find that I have to say LK Hamilton's latest book is...actually decent. It's...almost all plot!
2 kinda short sex scenes, with only one being actual sex. It was not bad at all.
Craxy.
Also, I think that it is the last Merry Gentry book. It seems to be the conclusion of the series.
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 9:04:10 am PST #7886 of 28597
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's...almost all plot!
She put all the plot from the last 10 books in one?
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 9:19:58 am PST #7887 of 28597
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hee. I wouldn't go THAT far, but it's pretty move-the-action forwardy.
Toddson - Nov 06, 2008 9:33:34 am PST #7888 of 28597
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And by action you mean ... (hey, this IS LKH)