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Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2008 4:40:02 am PST #7880 of 28552

"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 28552

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 28552

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 28552

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 28552

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 28552

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 28552

"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 28552

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 28552

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 28552

"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?

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