I've been meaning to post a link to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessismore.
I posted that link last weekend: in Movies, I think. Isn't it WONDERFUL?
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Consuela - Feb 09, 2012 7:20:27 am PST #17756 of 28583
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jessica - Feb 09, 2012 7:46:21 am PST #17757 of 28583
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It is! Sorry I missed your link in Movies, I would have talked it up.
It's so sad and beautiful and WONDERFUL. If it doesn't win I will be shocked and dismayed.
Beverly - Feb 09, 2012 9:34:00 am PST #17758 of 28583
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thanks for that link, ita--that is sad and wonderful.
Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2012 3:40:13 am PST #17759 of 28583
They pay me in WOIMS
DavidS - Feb 10, 2012 4:30:22 am PST #17760 of 28583
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
RIP John Christopher.
The Tripod trilogy had a big effect on me. One of my favorite series growing up. I remember riding in a car with a classmate and we were comparing books we were reading. I pimped The White Mountains and The City of Gold and Lead to him, and he suggested I read this book I'd never heard of called The Hobbit.
Kate P. - Feb 10, 2012 8:13:21 am PST #17761 of 28583
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I read those! I remember liking them, though not much about them has stuck with me. I sometimes mix him up with John Wyndham, who wrote Day of the Triffids. (Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
Fred Pete - Feb 10, 2012 9:11:13 am PST #17762 of 28583
Ann, that's a ferret.
(Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
Neither would defeat the Midwich Cuckoos.
Ginger - Feb 10, 2012 9:15:39 am PST #17763 of 28583
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tripods are taller than triffids.
This is one of those times when an author dies, and I feel bad I never got around to thanking him for his work.
Gris - Feb 10, 2012 12:50:08 pm PST #17764 of 28583
Hey. New board.
I loved the Tripods. Way more than the Triffids.
Consuela - Feb 10, 2012 2:41:44 pm PST #17765 of 28583
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I was shocked to learn John Christopher was dead, mostly because I was shocked to learn he was still alive. I read him when I was quite young, and they felt old then. I had assumed he'd died sometime in the 70s at the latest.