I ::coughed:: too soon!
x-posty goodness!
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Sep 02, 2009 9:32:30 am PDT #9912 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2009 9:34:13 am PDT #9913 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm tired of vampires and zombies.
Time for faeries!
That reminds me that the killer unicorn book finally came out last week.
Dude. I see it is called Rampant. And is YA. The excerpt is not terribly compelling, but it does have killer unicorns...
Barb, that description reads like someone took a handful of words that describe the trends/content of paranormal fiction and just threw them at a computer to see which ones would stick.
It really does sound like Paranormal Fiction Mad Libs.
Barb - Sep 02, 2009 9:36:11 am PDT #9914 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Dude. I see it is called Rampant. And is YA. The excerpt is not terribly compelling, but it does have killer unicorns...
::sigh::
That book depresses the shit out of me. (The author is A Nemesis with a massive superiority complex.) She got a huge deal for that book and to add insult to injury, it released on my birthday.
I just wish they'd left it with the crappy cover they initially designed for it. Because I'm mean that way.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2009 9:36:17 am PDT #9915 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I ADORE those two movies. I've owned them FOREVER (actually, my 2nd and 3rd DVD purchases, after "Dark City")
Aren't they fab? Love the clockwork jazz band, death by frog head and Price snootily sorting through the brussel sprouts and pitching the ones which won't work for the fabulous Locust Enticing Elixir.
Vulnavia is probably my all-time favorite mad villain assistant, though Tom Waits as Renfield is also pretty awesome.
Jessica - Sep 02, 2009 9:39:10 am PDT #9916 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And the lover, incidentally, apparently dowses for the dead? Or IS dead and dowses (while dead)?
I think the latter, though I still have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to mean. All the words look familiar, but in that order it's just word salad.
StuntHusband - Sep 02, 2009 9:42:09 am PDT #9917 of 28385
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Whenever I play World of Warcraft, and I'm on a new server (because some sub-set of friends says "join us here!") I always make a female undead named Vulnavia.
ALWAYS.
And the name is ALWAYS available.
WoW players are uncultured dunderheads.
Oh, wait...
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 9:43:25 am PDT #9918 of 28385
Coding and Sleeping
Could that book be purposefully tongue-in-cheek? I mean, it would make a whole lot more sense then.
Barb - Sep 02, 2009 9:50:16 am PDT #9919 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Which one? The paranormal word salad? I doubt it. It's seriously what's gaining in popularity.
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 9:53:48 am PDT #9920 of 28385
Coding and Sleeping
I was thinking about the word salad, though, really, either could apply.
Volans - Sep 02, 2009 10:00:20 am PDT #9921 of 28385
move out and draw fire
It seriously reads like a parody.