Is there a web site where you can search for a book by describing it? (Versus the way you search on Amazon, for instance.) I seem to remember someone mentioning something like that a while ago....
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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."
Steph L. - Jun 29, 2005 6:54:18 pm PDT #8025 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 29, 2005 10:02:22 pm PDT #8026 of 10002
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
abebooks.co.uk? I've never used it, but I've heard good things about their BookSleuth forum.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:09:03 am PDT #8027 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fred Pete - Jul 03, 2005 8:02:37 am PDT #8028 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Just heard on Internet radio --
The new Harry Potter book has 607 pages.
erikaj - Jul 03, 2005 9:53:04 am PDT #8029 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Damn.
Kathy A - Jul 03, 2005 9:54:15 am PDT #8030 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wow--JKR did say that it would less than the last two, but I didn't figure that much less. Maybe she let her editor do a bit more work than on OotP (which desperately needed some trimming, IMO).
Typo Boy - Jul 03, 2005 6:38:14 pm PDT #8031 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
A friend commented that the the Da Vinci Code whole plot turns on Sheilaism.
The subject changed before I could ask her what "Sheilaism" is. Maybe I should crosspost the question in unAmericans - since it has got to be an Australian term.
billytea - Jul 03, 2005 6:47:23 pm PDT #8032 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The subject changed before I could ask her what "Sheilaism" is. Maybe I should crosspost the question in unAmericans - since it has got to be an Australian term.
I confess I don't know what they mean by 'Sheilaism', and not having read the Da Vinci Code I couldn't hazard a guess, but 'Sheila' is simply slang for a woman, as in 'She's a beaut Sheila'. It'd be derived from that somehow.
Typo Boy - Jul 03, 2005 6:48:59 pm PDT #8033 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ah, already crossposted to unamerican. According to google Sheila refers specifically to young women - though I always thought it referred only the women. Take your word over google on matters Australian in any case.
billytea - Jul 03, 2005 6:50:28 pm PDT #8034 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wait, I've found more, and it looks like it's not an Australianism at all, but actually derived from a person called Sheila; Check here: [link] It seems to refer to an individualistic religious position (as opposed to one where membership in a religious community as central).
Edit: And I even found a reference to it on my old church's website, in an article titled "Pentecost and Crocodile Dundee": [link]