Forry Ackerman died. [link]
Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.
Spike ,'Touched'
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 - Dec 05, 2008 6:17:34 pm PST #8107 of 28427
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Connie Neil - Dec 09, 2008 5:26:27 pm PST #8108 of 28427
brillig
I have achieved a personal library goal, Philip Gosse's History of Piracy. Hooray for small presses that reprint interesting books. My copy was done in 1988, and there's a note on the copyright page saying that the copy that the press used to reprint was found by International Booksellers, which makes me think original copies are not so easy to track down.
Wonderful bibliography, if only I read French and Spanish and Dutch and could find copies of 400-year-old books etc. Several pages on my pirate ancestor, Jan Jansen AKA Murat Reis.
I need another bookshelf.
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2008 10:34:48 pm PST #8109 of 28427
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha - Dec 11, 2008 6:17:48 am PST #8110 of 28427
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Dinosaur comics tackles the big questions: [link]
Make sure to click the "comments" link as it's relevant to the Twilight discussion from a bit ago.
Tom Scola - Dec 11, 2008 6:20:05 am PST #8111 of 28427
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
That just might be the best Dinosaur Comics ever. Including all the rollovers.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2008 5:55:11 pm PST #8112 of 28427
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
This is a really awesome essay on "Twilight" and its appeal to young girls: [link]
Basically, the premise is that it's a wish-fulfillment fantasy in the way that Bella is functionally independent and taking power for herself, in ways that the target audience (girls 14-16) can't yet. Fascinating, well-argued. I'm almost convinced.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2008 9:25:32 am PST #8113 of 28427
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fascinating, well-argued. I'm almost convinced.
I haven't read Twilight, but isn't it reasonably common for YA protagonists to to have more independence than the readers?
Barb - Dec 12, 2008 9:26:52 am PST #8114 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
I haven't read Twilight, but isn't it reasonably common for YA protagonists to to have more independence than the readers?
Yerp. Hence the orphan or missing parent or emotionally absent parent as a trope.
Strix - Dec 13, 2008 8:26:49 am PST #8115 of 28427
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
You know, what frustrates me about the fantasy books that get really big (HP, Eragon, Twilight) is how they're seized upon as some big revolutionary thing, and scholarly treatises and essays are written on them, etc, blah blah blah. I really noticed it with HP, and I was flambozzled; I was all like "Why THIS series? It's not new, it's not revolutionary -- it's really pretty typical for the genre and there are other series and protags who I enjoy quite a bit more - why THIS one?"
And Eragon just made me grit my teeth and spit. Oooh, a kid wrote it, ooh. It's still derivitive and rather plodding and boring.
And there approx. 12 YA vampire series that are far more worthy of adulation than Twilight.
I call it the LCD effect and try to ignore it, but it bugs me, as a long-time reader of excellent AND crappy adult and YA fantasy, ans as the acquaintance of several authors in the genre who are much more deserving of fame and loads of payola.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2008 8:33:36 am PST #8116 of 28427
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
LCD effect
Liquid crystal display?