Hell, I didn't even read any of the abridgements! I skipped them all thinking, "I don't want to read this jackass talk about whatthefuckever! I want to get to the FireSwamp!"
Now I have to start all over!
Ouise, I'm so glad I'm not alone.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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."
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:47:24 am PST #4826 of 28476
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 4:47:38 am PST #4827 of 28476
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, Richard Bachman is really Stephen King.
(Something I actually knew about 10 years before it became public due to family connections with King and his family).
Sophia Brooks - Jan 24, 2008 4:55:51 am PST #4828 of 28476
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
When I read Kate Chopin's The Awakening, I thought the woman at the end was going for a swim and would come out of the Ocean and have a better life, but she was really drowning herself. Also, it took me several chapters to figure out that Buck in the Call of the Wild was a dog, not a person.
Volans - Jan 24, 2008 5:07:23 am PST #4829 of 28476
move out and draw fire
I thought Carolyn Keene was a real person until, oh, college.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2008 5:09:37 am PST #4830 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Luckily, there's a movie!
Heh - in the movie (also written by William Goldman), the book is also written by S. Morgenstern.
But seriously, nobody should feel stupid for making that mistake - it's a tribute to how well Goldman pulls it off that so many people fall for it.
flea - Jan 24, 2008 5:13:20 am PST #4831 of 28476
information libertarian
I love how To Say Nothing of the Dog starts off with everybody in the bombed out cathedral and Ned keeps referring to "Mr. Peabody" as a member of their crew and it isn't until the end of the chapter that it becomes clear that Mr. Peabody is a dog.
Also, just for the record? Adso's chonicle of what happened at the monastery in The Name of the Rose was not discovered by Umberto Eco on a cruise with an ex-lover.
brenda m - Jan 24, 2008 5:15:52 am PST #4832 of 28476
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 always wished George MacDonald Fraser's tales of the "discovery" of the Flashman diaries was true, but I think I kind of always knew it probably wasn't. Or at least that's how I remember it. Luckily, that was before the internets so I was never exposed.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 5:26:30 am PST #4833 of 28476
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Mr. Peabody"
Although that name is guranteed to set off associations in people of a certain age.
Ginger - Jan 24, 2008 5:28:27 am PST #4834 of 28476
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Oops. Wrong thread.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2008 6:03:16 am PST #4835 of 28476
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wrong Mr. Peabody, too, right Ginger?