Is anyone else here a Lorrie Moore fan? I must know.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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."
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2004 4:55:31 am PDT #2802 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
msbelle - May 19, 2004 5:01:46 am PDT #2803 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Lilty, I will send you mine after tonight. e me your address.
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
how about midwestern gothic?
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2004 5:07:54 am PDT #2804 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
Incest. Lots of incest.
Lilty Cash - May 19, 2004 5:08:20 am PDT #2805 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic? how about midwestern gothic?
This is horrible, but all that I can imagine is that couple standing in front of the farmhouse with the pitchfork.
Fred Pete - May 19, 2004 5:11:28 am PDT #2806 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
how about midwestern gothic?
Like Southern Gothic, but people pronounce their r's.
Vortex - May 19, 2004 5:12:32 am PDT #2807 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
dysfunctional. lots of family secrets, usually involving affairs and/or illegitimate children and/or incest (or all three). Lots of sneaking around in the kudzu and the sounds of crickets in the darkness. At some point, someone sits in a rocking chair on a porch and fans themselves.
juliana - May 19, 2004 5:12:33 am PDT #2808 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
Spooooky, y'all.
edit: Thank goodness Vortex came in with an actual definition. :)
So, like Eugene O'Neill, but with more lurking?
Micole - May 19, 2004 5:13:56 am PDT #2809 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Sometimes florid prose, or at least prose that calls attention to itself. (Not sure this goes for Flannery O'Connor, actually, but works for Faulkner.)
Dani - May 19, 2004 7:16:19 am PDT #2810 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
What really baffled me was once coming across a description of Alice Munro's work as "Ontario gothic."
First of all, that's an incredibly wrong-headed reading of Munro, and secondly? There is no "gothic" in Ontario.
Consuela - May 19, 2004 7:30:56 am PDT #2811 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just finished a second read of Lirael and my first read of Abhorsen. Gotta say, I was a bit disappointed. The pacing is completely and utterly wacked: Lirael takes for-frelling-ever to get going, and yet Abhorsen winds up disturbingly fast, with no denouement to speak of.
Additionally, the character development stops around the beginning of Abhorsen, and the novel suddenly turns into all-plot-all-the-time. I like the universe and the characters pretty well (although Sameth was a lazy confrontation-avoiding jerk for most of it), but Nix didn't identify the Big Bad early enough to make me fear its release, and Lirael became just too competent too quickly. Plus, there is the whole related to heroine of previous novel element, which gave me bad flashbacks to very Mary Sue fanfic.
So, I give them a thumbs up for the story and the plotting, thumbs down for the characterizations.
Other recent purchases include two of Lloyd Alexander's "Westmark" stories, a three-fer of Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman Britain novels, and Miles Errant, the combo novel containing Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance.