My outrage didn't need two posts. Sorry.
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'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."
Barb - Jul 01, 2009 11:25:48 am PDT #9499 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2009 11:34:36 am PDT #9500 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think it's worth 2 posts, myself.
Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2009 1:30:20 pm PDT #9501 of 28404
brillig
Jilli, Cabinet of Dr Caligari hit the postal system this afternoon.
Fay - Jul 01, 2009 2:05:23 pm PDT #9502 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I would give you A Look, but then you would pointedly ask how often I've read "Those Who Hunt The Night", and then things would just devolve.
Oh, man, I do love Hambly, and that's one of my favourites. Although my edition is called Immortal Blood, and, sadly, has THE single most inappropriate (textually substantiated, but completely misleading) image on the front-cover. Anyone who saw the front cover and thought "Excellent, that'll be the book for me!" would then be utterly disappointed by the book's contents, while many of those inclined to love the hell out of the book would be unlikely to pick it up based on the title and cover art combo. I'll read anything Hambly writes, so it was a no-brainer at the time, but, wow, her UK publishers did her a disservice with that one. (Although the sequel had a more appropriate front cover, and didn't get renamed.) I'm sure you've read Bride of the Rat God? It's terribly charming also. (And of course I love her fantasy books - although I was traumatised by the sequels to Dragonsbane, and haven't trusted her since that happened. Jesus. And I thought I wanted sequels to that book. Wow, was I wrong.)
erikaj - Jul 01, 2009 2:22:38 pm PDT #9503 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
No, I think it's totally fitting Barb. Or maybe we're rotten in the same way, but in any case, I'm completely with you. And her take on WH is pretty much the most epic misread I've ever seen since Pat Robertson picked up a Bible, so...
Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2009 4:04:45 pm PDT #9504 of 28404
brillig
Bride of the Rat God rocks.
Typo Boy - Jul 01, 2009 7:08:18 pm PDT #9505 of 28404
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh yeah. And from the stories I hear from my Mom really true to the Hollywood of that era. (Secondhand stories she heard. At 87, she is not old enough to have experienced that version of Hollywood first hand. )
Typo Boy - Jul 01, 2009 7:50:21 pm PDT #9506 of 28404
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
If anyone ever writes the Meyer fic, may I contribute some possible final lines.
"He rose from the corpse, shaking off the worst of the gore. Drops of blood shimmered in the moonlight like red glitter."
erikaj - Jul 01, 2009 7:51:22 pm PDT #9507 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
Hee!
Barb - Jul 02, 2009 2:44:01 pm PDT #9508 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
::gurgles::
UK coffee adverts with actors reading ten minute excerpts of classics by Dominic West, Dan Stevens, and Greg Wise.
Dan Stevens reading Great Ex. And Greg Wise reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles