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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good

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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Lilty Cash - May 10, 2004 9:28:55 am PDT #2786 of 10002

"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."

OK, now I know I'm messing up my titles, but I think the girl in Fall Into Darkness (as long as thats the one where the girl went over the cliff) referenced the one where the girl faked her death on the boat.

White-fonted in case someone is still making their way through the opus-es (what is the plural for opus? Opi?) of Christopher Pike. You never know.

Gris - May 10, 2004 11:02:16 am PDT #2787 of 10002

Hey. New board.

Another one is how Tolkien's The Two Towers has some cameos by characters in The Fellowship of the Ring.

Also? The Hobbit. One might think these books are all related or something.

(BWAH!)

Polter-Cow - May 10, 2004 11:05:48 am PDT #2788 of 10002

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Also? The Hobbit. One might think these books are all related or something.

So you're saying they have a...connection?

Jess M. - May 10, 2004 11:12:31 am PDT #2789 of 10002

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

Are you all very stoned?

Frankenbuddha - May 10, 2004 3:41:50 pm PDT #2790 of 10002

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

And one odd, glancing mention in Peter Straub's Floating Dragon, of one of the characters from Ghost Story.

Straub also tied a bunch of characters together in the "blue rose" novels (and I think there was a novella there that I haven't read yet). It wasn't a series per se, but knowing who was who definitely added resonance.

msbelle - May 10, 2004 7:36:37 pm PDT #2791 of 10002

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Jess made me snort.

bookclub selection for the month is Vinegar Hill.

Angus G - May 10, 2004 9:30:13 pm PDT #2792 of 10002

Roguish Laird

Balzac also did that a hell of a lot (have characters appearing across multiple books, that is).

Jess M. - May 11, 2004 6:57:23 am PDT #2793 of 10002

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

Jess made me snort.

woo hoo!

JohnSweden - May 11, 2004 6:21:48 pm PDT #2794 of 10002

I can't even.

Katerina, you asked upthread where to get a copy of Carrion Comfort in the superior novella form. It was originally published in September and October of '83 in Omni Magazine, and reprinted in the following places:

Prayers to Broken Stones (1990) , Dan Simmons , Dark Harvest , hc , 0-913-16558-1 , $21.95 , 322pp

Prayers to Broken Stones (1992) , Dan Simmons , Bantam Spectra , pb , 0-553-29665-5 , $5.99 , 403pp

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) , Gardner Dozois , Bluejay Books , hc , 0-312-94482-9 , $17.95 , 575pp

Blood Is Not Enough (1990) , Ellen Datlow , Grafton , pb , 0-586-20852-6 , L4.50 , 414pp

A Taste for Blood (1992) , Martin H. Greenberg , Dorset , hc , 0-88029-770-0 , 589+xvipp

Katerina Bee - May 12, 2004 6:59:43 am PDT #2795 of 10002

Herding cats for fun

Wow, thanks, John! Not only the information I wanted, but a list to choose from; and I choose the Ellen Datlow anthology. Thank You! I will hie me off to Amazon.

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