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.
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Mar 17, 2005 12:23:32 pm PST #7254 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2005 5:14:03 pm PST #7262 of 10002
brillig
Andre Norton pretty much invented the trope of the alienated teen who really is special/super-powered
It's always boggling to realize that, yes, someone did have to think of it first, especially with things that become so pervasive. It's like listening to people say, "I don't like Tolkien, it's just like all the other fantasies out there."
Ginger - Mar 17, 2005 5:15:23 pm PST #7263 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Andre Norton and the Heinlein juveniles were the first science fiction I read and the first books I bought. I still have Andre Norton books I bought more than 35 years ago. (Aside from an occasional ice cream or candy bar, my allowance all went for comics and paperbacks.) I'm not sure you would catch the Norton love as an adult; she has a great imagination, but both her characters and prose can be a bit one-dimensional. I think the science fiction like The Time Traders holds up best.