If you care about short stories, read "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" He makes it look so easy, but, um, it's not.(Damn it.)
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
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."
erikaj - Jul 21, 2004 3:27:54 pm PDT #5288 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
sumi - Jul 21, 2004 6:25:19 pm PDT #5289 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
"The Rule of Four"?
Hmmm, sounds interesting. I really didn't like The DaVinci Code -- so many people thought I'd like it because -- Da Vinci -- but I thought it wimped out at the end and didn't think it was that great in the beginning or middle either.
Anne W. - Jul 22, 2004 3:48:19 am PDT #5290 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Reading The DaVinci Code was like reading a crossword puzzle, IMO. So far, The Rule of Four is doing a much better job of things. The main point of the puzzle isn't the puzzle--it's the impact that the solving is having on the characters' lives. Also, the answer to the puzzle isn't something that's been bandied about in conspiracy-oriented history books and A&E specials for the past several decades.
sumi - Jul 22, 2004 4:04:25 am PDT #5291 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
When I was at the library last night I picked up a round robin mystery called The Sunken Sailor. I haven't started reading it yet but it's set in an English village between WWI & WWII. Authors are Simon Brett, Jan Burke, Margaret Coel, Deborah Crombie, Eileen Dreyer, Carolyn Hart, Edward Marston, Francine Mathews, Sharan Newman, Alexandra Ripley, Walter Satterthwait, Sarah Smith and Carolyn Wheat. I've read books by some, not all of the writers that participated. Anyway, the writers are members of Malice Domestic.
joe boucher - Jul 22, 2004 5:06:48 am PDT #5292 of 10002
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Polter-Cow - Jul 22, 2004 5:32:52 am PDT #5293 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Beware! There are Watchmen spoilers. I advise those who haven't read it to skip the paragraph on the first page beginning
Similarly, "Watchmen," Moore's groundbreaking serial that blew the comics genre wide open
and the first question and answer on the fifth page.
Yes, it's old, and no, it doesn't give away the villain, but part of the enjoyment of reading it came from not knowing what was going on, and I wouldn't want people to have that experience tainted.
Kate P. - Jul 22, 2004 5:41:08 am PDT #5294 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
too late. :-(
Good article, though.
JohnSweden - Jul 22, 2004 5:49:22 am PDT #5295 of 10002
I can't even.
That was a terrific article. Thanks for posting it, joe.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 23, 2004 2:18:09 am PDT #5296 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Le Roi en Juane is MINE! And, appropriate to the subject matter, I had to get up at 5 am to seal the deal due to transatlantic time differences. Soon, I will have an excuse for all my eccentricities...
Betsy HP - Jul 23, 2004 5:59:52 pm PDT #5297 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
PLEASE keep us posted. I am agog that a French original exists.