Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.

'Shindig'


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."


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)


Kat - Nov 06, 2008 9:34:41 am PST #7889 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ok, YA readers, I have just finished The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Seriously the book rocked. The NYT called it when it said that Frankie is a feminist character chaffing against the Old Boy's Network. So good! Anyone else read it?