Youse guys probably already did this, but I will still recommend Perdido Street Station.
It is weirder than me. That should not be possible.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
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."
Gus - Mar 20, 2005 1:29:52 am PST #7292 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
erikaj - Mar 20, 2005 7:50:10 am PST #7293 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, babe, we only have your word that it is. And you're biased. Wouldn't want to get in "contrapment"
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 2:37:37 pm PST #7294 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
Okay, show of hands. Which of the two characters on this book cover is speaking the title sentence?
Strix - Mar 22, 2005 3:06:17 pm PST #7295 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
No book title should ever have "Uh..." as the starter word.
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2005 3:30:53 pm PST #7296 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You both know that's a Photoshopped parody, right?
DXMachina - Mar 22, 2005 4:15:52 pm PST #7297 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
How can you tell?
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2005 7:59:08 pm PST #7298 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because of this.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 8:58:21 pm PST #7299 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
You both know that's a Photoshopped parody, right?
Oh yeah... after Susan posted the link to that legitimate cover vote, I went back and found the spoof cover website we'd laughed about way back when. Lord of the Hissyfit and so forth...
Brynn - Mar 23, 2005 3:29:28 pm PST #7300 of 10002
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
*pops in* Have a literary/nattery type question: "The love that dare not speaketh its name"... Is that Oscar Wilde, and does anyone know from where it originates?
Ginger - Mar 23, 2005 3:32:23 pm PST #7301 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"The love that dare not speak its name" was a phrase used in Oscar Wilde's trial for homosexuality. I suspect it has an earlier origin.