Gary Stu is the other one I've heard.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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."
Dana - Nov 06, 2008 6:39:44 am PST #7883 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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?
Scrappy - Nov 06, 2008 9:46:54 am PST #7890 of 28414
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kat, I am going to take the CSET. I took the practice test and did well on analysis and comprehension, but sucked at the theoretical stuff. Do you have any books on teaching reading skills you can recommend? So I can tell a phoneme from a schmomeme and stuff.
Kat - Nov 06, 2008 9:50:35 am PST #7891 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Marilyn Adams is a big deal in early literacy. She has lots of info on teaching reading for early grades (is it CSET for elem, right?) I didn't know you were trying to get a credential.
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 10:00:43 am PST #7892 of 28414
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Toddson, by action I meant actual action. Weird, innit?
ION, I also read "Middlesex" last night. I'd tried to read "The Virgin Suicides" years ago and was terribly bored and couldn't get into it, so I had been "eh" about trying "Middlesex" for years. But I got it at the library and was pretty entertained. Although I thought the ending was truncated and kinda of abrupt and lacking.