A Storm of Swords. My BiL gave me a Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings a couple of weeks ago and I picked up this one when I was done with those. I'm just about finished with it and telling myself sternly to not go find a copy of the next one right away, dammit. My To Be Read pile is not shrinking on its own.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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."
-t - Sep 06, 2009 3:42:30 pm PDT #9956 of 28385
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2009 8:11:59 pm PDT #9957 of 28385
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Sep 06, 2009 9:11:17 pm PDT #9958 of 28385
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
you had Lost Boys, which is essentially vampirism as wish fulfillment — it was really the first time you can absolutely take a pin and point to these great vampire moments on celluloid or on video, or in print, whatever, where people really seemed to have looked around and gone, ''What is the downside of this thing again? Hang on, you get to live forever, you get to be absolutely sexually attractive and you don’t have zits... You have magic powers; what you're giving up is daylight.'' And this [sentiment] from people who aren't seeing a lot of daylight anyway. Seems like a very, very good exchange.
Oh, Neil. Let me draw pink sparkly hearts, perhaps with bat wings, around this paragraph.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2009 9:30:20 pm PDT #9959 of 28385
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't you love it? It was my favourite too.
Atropa - Sep 06, 2009 9:38:13 pm PDT #9960 of 28385
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Since that was pretty much what went through my teen-aged brain the first time I saw Lost Boys, I think this paragraph was destined to be my favorite.
StuntHusband - Sep 07, 2009 2:22:10 am PDT #9961 of 28385
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Since that was pretty much what went through my teen-aged brain the first time I saw Lost Boys, I think this paragraph was destined to be my favorite.
My reaction was stereotypically gay - "THAT'S the best they can do, wardrobe-wise? I'll stick with Lestat, thanks."
Barb - Sep 07, 2009 3:09:43 am PDT #9962 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
"THAT'S the best they can do, wardrobe-wise? I'll stick with Lestat, thanks."
For the mid-80s, Jamie Gertz's wardrobe wasn't too terrible-- sort of that gypsy chic thing going on. I seem to recall she had several full skirts I loved.
StuntHusband - Sep 07, 2009 4:27:23 am PDT #9963 of 28385
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
This isn't literary, this is me bitching about spellcheck again.
From SPACE.com:
"Some pessimists predicted the Milky Way was doomed to a grizzly death by dismemberment if enough of these galaxies collide with it."
Those are not intergalactic BEARS. Those are small GALAXIES, so it should be a "grisly death". So very bothersome!
And yes I'm awake early; I get to work a normal day today.
Volans - Sep 07, 2009 4:36:14 am PDT #9964 of 28385
move out and draw fire
I'm sorry, the image of the Milky Way being ripped apart by huge bears is made of awesome.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 07, 2009 5:10:52 am PDT #9965 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Maybe Ursa major is going to rip apart the galaxy?