Jack definitely is one, whatever one is.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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 28414
"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 28414
"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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Gary Stu is the other one I've heard.
amych - Nov 06, 2008 6:45:22 am PST #7884 of 28414
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 28414
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 28414
"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 28414
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 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And by action you mean ... (hey, this IS LKH)