Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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."


Polter-Cow - Jan 11, 2011 7:09:05 am PST #13526 of 28527
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

On Facebook, a friend was looking at the NYT bestsellers the week she was born, and she got a Stephen King book, as did many of us. I got Cujo. Another friend got The Butter Battle Book, so I mentioned that I'd been in a comic opera based on that book with Gilbert and Sullivan songs set to new lyrics. So a friend joked about wanting a G&S comic opera about Cujo. And then the original friend declared that it must star Miss Piggy.

And so I wrote this, which I felt like sharing.

I am the very model of a modern rabid killer dog.
I just ate up Miss Piggy; she was nothing but a filler hog.
My favorite meal is bacon but I'll also eat men on a jog.
For my dessert I think I'll go chomp on the legs of Kermit Frog.
I'm frothing at the mouth just like the writer of a gender blog
Who's glad I'm not a bitch because then King would get the fem'nist flog.
If humans coming near me would bow down, I do think that'd be great.
It really makes them easier to kill and then decapitate.

I'm very good at murdering, devouring, and causing gore.
My hunger is insatiable; you always leave me wanting more.
In short, you can't escape me without jumping right into a bog.
I am the very model of a modern rabid killer dog!


Amy - Jan 11, 2011 7:17:20 am PST #13527 of 28527
Because books.

I forgot about The Dead Zone and The Dark Half. I liked both. There's not a lot of King I don't like, honestly. I even read Rose Madder, way back.

the movie had such a magical negro in it, I was never tempted.

Yeah, I thought about that. I don't remember it being quite so smarmy in the book, though.


tiggy - Jan 11, 2011 7:20:39 am PST #13528 of 28527
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

hahaha!! that was fabulous, P-C!


sumi - Jan 11, 2011 7:29:07 am PST #13529 of 28527
Art Crawl!!!

I got Franny and Zooey and The Making of the President 1960

I are old.


Fred Pete - Jan 11, 2011 7:40:02 am PST #13530 of 28527
Ann, that's a ferret.

sumi, I also got Franny and Zooey. With Robert Frost, Barry Goldwater, and Richard Nixon on the non-fiction list.

No Stephen King.


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 8:29:06 am PST #13531 of 28527
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I got a Helen MacInnes and a John Le Carre, both of which my mother no doubt read.


-t - Jan 11, 2011 9:19:41 am PST #13532 of 28527
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I got the same as ita, though I doubt my mother read those.


Jesse - Jan 11, 2011 9:28:34 am PST #13533 of 28527
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

#1 when I was born was Burr by Gore Vidal, which just makes me think of the commercial with the guy eating peanut butter.


beth b - Jan 11, 2011 9:31:47 am PST #13534 of 28527
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Moonspinners by Mary Stewart is on my list -- one of my favorites by her


Liese S. - Jan 11, 2011 9:49:35 am PST #13535 of 28527
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Holli, I really really did.
 
I am Dana wrt King.