I want to shop at Tep's bookstore...
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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."
Jessica - Jul 03, 2004 5:00:54 pm PDT #4547 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
msbelle - Jul 03, 2004 5:05:29 pm PDT #4548 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Michael Crichtons
oh this reminds me. I think it was in Minearverse where he came up and some considered him science fiction and others very much did not. I just read in Book Lust where she classifies him as horror, as least she puts Jurrasic park there.
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2004 5:13:47 pm PDT #4549 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just read in Book Lust where she classifies him as horror, as least she puts Jurrasic park there.
Buh? That's like counting Requiem for a Dream as horror (and it was, in a year with so few sci-fi/horror contenders).
Steph L. - Jul 03, 2004 5:17:49 pm PDT #4550 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My bookstore is not for the faint of heart. There are casualties all the time. For instance, many people have been clunked on the head when walking past the A section, from all the Jane Austens swooning and falling off the shelf. The problem was solved by putting them on a low shelf.
And don't even get me started on the Stephen King section....
Gus - Jul 03, 2004 5:25:06 pm PDT #4551 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
That's like counting Requiem for a Dream as horror...
This is the result of smoking the bad crack.
The good crack would have revealed that Darren Aronofsky was a directing genius, and that Hubert Selby Jr., having no other connection to the world, was forced to communicate his perceptions of reality via a language that had no punctuation.
Jessica - Jul 03, 2004 5:29:19 pm PDT #4552 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In the library in my brain, Michael Chricton does not get shelved with the sci-fi, in spite of every one of his books (that I have read) having fictional science as a major part of the premise.
I think part of the disconnect is that his writing style is very much best-sellerese, which my brain does not parse as sci-fi no matter how much fictional science there is.
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2004 5:32:55 pm PDT #4553 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think part of the disconnect is that his writing style is very much best-sellerese, which my brain does not parse as sci-fi no matter how much fictional science there is.
I read a lot of Robin Cook medical thrillers back in the day. They call Dean Koontz the "Master of Suspense" and his books thrillers, despite many of them also having elements of science fiction and the paranormal. I think this "thriller" term may apply to sci-fi written in best-sellerese.
Gus - Jul 03, 2004 5:37:27 pm PDT #4554 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
best-sellerese
I stare at this phrase.
It has meaning to me. I am sure of it.
"Michael Crichton" and "anything positive" surely do not reside in the same sentence. Possibly, they do.
This puts my world asunder.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2004 5:38:36 pm PDT #4555 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This puts my world asunder.
Well, "anything positive" surely includes his bank balance.
msbelle - Jul 03, 2004 5:39:29 pm PDT #4556 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I totally get that and I think best-sellerese is a good basic descriptive. Of course it has to be followed up with something like - suspense, romance, triumph over trauma, family relations, coming of age..., but it gets the point across.