Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.

Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'


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."


Laga - Apr 17, 2009 10:35:56 am PDT #8893 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

we were passing around VC Andrews in 5th grade. leh.


DavidS - Apr 19, 2009 3:18:33 pm PDT #8894 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

J.G. Ballard has died.

What a loss. I think he's not only one of the three or four most important science fiction writers, I think he's simply been one of the best post-war novelists to come out of Britain.

His insight into media and our culture were profound and very influential on me.


DavidS - Apr 19, 2009 5:08:56 pm PDT #8895 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Bruce Sterling describing Ballard's status:

In the circle of American science fiction writers of my generation — cyberpunks and humanists and so forth — [Ballard] was a towering figure. We used to have bitter struggles over who was more Ballardian than whom. We knew we were not fit to polish the man’s boots, and we were scarcely able to understand how we could get to a position to do work which he might respect or stand, but at least we were able to see the peak of achievement that he had reached.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 19, 2009 5:58:18 pm PDT #8896 of 28414
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Is Watership Down as scary as Harry Potter?

Yes, but it's not as bad as The Plague Dogs. Richard Adams really liked the traumatizing animal stories, I'll tell you what.


beth b - Apr 19, 2009 8:14:37 pm PDT #8897 of 28414
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I think I was 12 or 13 wen I read Watership Down, but I can't be sure. suspenseful,sad, but I don't think I would have used scary . And I didn't touch anything like horror 'til college.

Now I want to reread it.


Laga - Apr 19, 2009 10:22:00 pm PDT #8898 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Yes, but it's not as bad as The Plague Dogs

Oh god, The Plague Dogs, yeah. Nobody should read read that.

suspenseful,sad, but I don't think I would have used scary

I was terrified of the cat.

Can you run? I think not.

I was afraid of The Owslafa too.

I really liked Traveller. Especially at the end how he thought they won .


Barb - Apr 20, 2009 3:11:22 am PDT #8899 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”

Kill.

Me.

Now.

Jane Austen and Adam Campan's JAMES FAIRFAX, a gender-bending stylish dance-of-manners version of Jane Austen's EMMA, with matchmaking Emma Woodhouse trying to find a suitable husband for her lover Harriet Smith, and exploring the gay secrets of the relationship between the mysterious and accomplished James Fairfax and the handsome Frank Churchill, to Vera Nazarian at Norilana Books, in a nice deal, for publication in August 2009.

With Austen listed as a co-author, no less!


Anne W. - Apr 20, 2009 3:24:21 am PDT #8900 of 28414
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Barb, all I can say to that is "what the hell?"

Edit: All I can say is that I bet there are a dozen Austen fanfics that tread similar ground, and no doubt do it brilliantly. But the chutzpah of lising Austen as a co-author on a professionally published story? NO.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 20, 2009 3:59:20 am PDT #8901 of 28414
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I blame the zombies.


Amy - Apr 20, 2009 4:12:12 am PDT #8902 of 28414
Because books.

But the chutzpah of lising Austen as a co-author on a professionally published story? NO.

Maybe he uses actual passages from the original as a framework?

I'm not sure I'm appalled, really. Think of Wide Sargasso Sea or H, which was the story of where Heathcliff went for all those years while he was away. I can't help it -- I'm usually fascinated by a new perspective on some of these classics.