Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.

'Lineage'


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."


Jessica - Mar 17, 2005 12:16:39 pm PST #7252 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I can't remember if I've seen Diner or not. Have definitely seen BB and RM.

I'm pretty sure the only Norton I've read has been co-written, but I can't remember with who.


joe boucher - Mar 17, 2005 12:18:40 pm PST #7253 of 10002
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

I told her to quit reading all that damn Jane Austen crap and Charles Dickens and catch up on her video watching so she'd get my allusions.

And he said it while eating a plate of shrimp and contemplating John Wayne answering the door in a dress.


erikaj - Mar 17, 2005 12:23:32 pm PST #7254 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Hey, Hecubus...I resemble that remark, I suppose. Although the same sense of inadequacy coupled with bullshit pride that brought me there, compells me to put up a bit of an argument. You had it right the first time, maybe.


DavidS - Mar 17, 2005 12:41:06 pm PST #7255 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hey, Hecubus...I resemble that remark, I suppose.

Awww, I love your love of Baltimore. I'm waiting for your John Waters' phase.


erikaj - Mar 17, 2005 12:52:20 pm PST #7256 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I know. Around here, we just have Colangelo's ass. Everyone kisses that one. Perhaps I'm looking for a smarter ass. ;) I've seen "Cry-Baby" and "Hairspray" each a bunch of times. But I know those aren't the funkiest Waters' Oh, and "Serial Mom", which should win some kind of Sci-Fi prize for making Waterston look awful.


Deena - Mar 17, 2005 1:29:57 pm PST #7257 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

My first Norton was Catseye, and I thought I'd read everything she'd ever written until I ran across a listing of everything she'd ever written. I did get tired of her sentence construction, but she was my hero, my first SciFi/Fantasy author, and author of one of the first books I read that I had to hide from my parents.


Beverly - Mar 17, 2005 4:14:24 pm PST #7258 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I've read everything Norton ever published under that name. I've wanted to get hold of some of the things she published as Andrew North, but...lazy. I've also not read any of her collaborations.

The first was Daybreak 2250 A.D, aka, Star Man's Son. Not only did it start me on Norton, but it introduced me to SciFi and Fantasy, and, in a way, changed my way of thinking and my view of the world. Much of the SciFi I read was 60s social commentary, at a time in my life when I was becoming socially conscious. Just think, I could have spent my 20s reading gothic novels instead.


Polter-Cow - Mar 17, 2005 4:56:47 pm PST #7259 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

This is almost as bad as JZ's confession last night that she's never seen Buckaroo Banzai or Repo Man or Diner.

Me too, and I've also never read any Norton.

I'm with Cindy.


brenda m - Mar 17, 2005 5:08:26 pm PST #7260 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I've seen Repo Man, and I've always meant to see Diner. That's all I can claim off that list. No Norton that I'm aware of.


DavidS - Mar 17, 2005 5:10:19 pm PST #7261 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Me too, and I've also never read any Norton.

I'm with Cindy.

Well it's too late for you now. Andre Norton pretty much invented the trope of the alienated teen who really is special/super-powered. Her and early Marvel Comics. Anyway, it's the fundamental presmise of BtVS and most things ever on the WB.