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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."

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Nilly - Mar 11, 2004 8:57:35 am PST #1280 of 10002

Swouncing

Thanks for the explanation, Hec and Jilli. I don't think we have anything like that here. No, wait, we do - for one horrid Israeli movie. Let;s not speak of it.

along with Tarzan.

Tarzan was huge here in the early days of Israel - there were short books published about him by Israeli writers (not sure if they cleared the legal issues first), but I still think that plenty of even the books weren't translated.

strangely laconic short guitar player with cool hair.

She's taller than me and my other sister, she learns to play guitar, she has nearly Rio-like curls, she's not laconic, but she probably shares lots of Oz' musical tastes. Close enough.

DavidS - Mar 11, 2004 8:57:58 am PST #1281 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

There are no tie-in books for The Lord of the Rings.

Except the movie picture covers.

erikaj - Mar 11, 2004 8:59:38 am PST #1282 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

Jilli, sort of off-topic, but I finally saw "Nightmare before Christmas"...I liked it a lot, but not as much as you...it was truly very Jilli-ish. Quite an experience...I'd never seen anything like it.

Katie M - Mar 11, 2004 9:00:46 am PST #1283 of 10002

I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Except the movie picture covers.

Well, that's true, but that doesn't really bother me.

DavidS - Mar 11, 2004 9:02:47 am PST #1284 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well, that's true, but that doesn't really bother me.

I appreciated that while they did the movie covers, they kept non-movie covers in print simultaneously. That was smart.

Atropa - Mar 11, 2004 9:05:10 am PST #1285 of 10002

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

but I finally saw "Nightmare before Christmas"...I liked it a lot, but not as much as you

Oooh! I'm glad you finally saw it. One of my favorite movies of all time, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

The movie-tie-in kids' book for Nightmare is good. Of course, it's only about 25 pages long and is all Tim Burton drawings, so it was hard to go wrong.

Frankenbuddha - Mar 11, 2004 9:12:17 am PST #1286 of 10002

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

He's a huge Oz fan.

Plot developments on Oz. (Oddly enough, not the one Hec and Nilly are discussing.)

Heh. Hec's quote had me wondering if Harlan Ellison was a big Beecher/Keller shipper.

Jess M. - Mar 11, 2004 9:17:53 am PST #1287 of 10002

Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse

I really liked the ending to Toni Morrison's Paradise, because it was at the beginning, and then you had the rest of the novel to find out how they got to that point and reinterpret the opening sentence and chapter. Margaret Atwood's the Blind Assassin was similarly structured.

And I remember a similar discussion about Conrad's Heart of Darkness in my 12th grade english class, about the last sentence specifically, which my teacher claimed to be one of the most perfectly constructed sentences in literature.

Aims - Mar 11, 2004 11:27:19 am PST #1288 of 10002

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I hated Return to Oz.

Not that this will surprise anyone.

DavidS - Mar 11, 2004 11:29:07 am PST #1289 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I hated Return to Oz.

If I gave you a pack of cigarettes right now, you'd sit down and watch it and it'd be your favorite movie ever.

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