Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?

Xander ,'End of Days'


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."


dcp - Jan 07, 2009 4:25:03 pm PST #8287 of 28431
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I like italics or all-caps for book titles, movie titles, TV series names, and album names, then quote marks for article titles, episode titles, and song titles.

Just no underlining for titles, please? Underlining now means it should be a hyperlink.


§ ita § - Jan 07, 2009 4:27:34 pm PST #8288 of 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

HTML writers that just underline and don't change the colour or other form of the link should be smacked.


Jessica - Jan 07, 2009 4:34:18 pm PST #8289 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Almost the first thing I do with any new browser is set links to not be underlined.


Connie Neil - Jan 07, 2009 5:40:31 pm PST #8290 of 28431
brillig

I didn't finish the second Sharing Knife book because I wasn't that interested in the inter-family stuff, I was more interested in the knife itself etc. I still need to find the second Cordelia book.


Polter-Cow - Jan 07, 2009 10:25:07 pm PST #8291 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

FAY! I, too, just finished reading The Name of the Wind and agree that it is awesome for all the reasons you stated!! Here, have a post.


Laga - Jan 08, 2009 10:22:11 am PST #8292 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm able to ration chapters and keep myself from staying up too late reading but it's a battle to put it down sometimes. Still I'm less than 200 pages in.

When Fay wrote about stories within stories within stories I thought it might be confusing but now that I'm in the thick of it I understand. The beginnings of tales are good places to take a break. Maybe if I take long enough reading I won't be done until April 7th when The Wise Man's Fear comes out.


Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2009 11:08:07 am PST #8293 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Still I'm less than 200 pages in.

You haven't even hit the Harry Potter section yet!

When Fay wrote about stories within stories within stories I thought it might be confusing but now that I'm in the thick of it I understand.

There's an entire fantasy world IN this fantasy world.


Laga - Jan 08, 2009 2:01:35 pm PST #8294 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

You haven't even hit the Harry Potter section yet!

I was so glad to see he still goes to school but I suppose he must, if he grows up to be himself. Right now I'm in my head yelling at him that man knows you! He called you by name and you never told him! Why do you think he keeps saying things your dad used to say?! sheesh.


Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2009 2:19:29 pm PST #8295 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Wait, who are you talking about in your whitefont?


Laga - Jan 08, 2009 2:34:12 pm PST #8296 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

maybe I'm reading too much into it and introductions were implied in the text but I'm talking about... crud I forget his name: the skinny old storyteller.