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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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Kate P. - Dec 16, 2004 5:06:27 am PST #6641 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I don't know this one.

It was a pleasure to burn.

But this must be Fahrenheit 451, right? I don't know what I'd nominate for the title, but I'm still largely unversed in classic SF.

Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:15:58 am PST #6642 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I don't know this one.

1984.

But this must be Fahrenheit 451, right?

Yep.

Kate P. - Dec 16, 2004 5:17:25 am PST #6643 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Oh, right. I read 1984 probably ten years ago.

Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 16, 2004 5:27:18 am PST #6644 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

No clue.

Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.

Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:29:23 am PST #6645 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Wow. I haven't even heard of that.

§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 5:31:22 am PST #6646 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He's the famousest albino.

Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:32:15 am PST #6647 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I thought that was the guy with the wheelbarrow in The Princess Bride.

§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 5:33:48 am PST #6648 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Paleface-come-lately, him.

JohnSweden - Dec 16, 2004 5:36:51 am PST #6649 of 10002
I can't even.

Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.

Yup, the Melvinbone. Pretty influential stuff. There's also that "O, Prince" line that starts off Conan the Barbarian.

dcp - Dec 16, 2004 5:43:04 am PST #6650 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

IJS

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