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Currently reading How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely and it has me cracking up. Sex Lives of Cannibals Lamb Those are funny too :)

This is hilarious. Thanks!

I'm torn about Dollhouse. But you all are right, the first episodes of Buffy and Angel weren't great. I read that Fox got involved with some things and made them rewrite the script for Dollhouse. So the ending is different than what Whedon intended. The production side of things has...

well you will have to experiment and work it out. Rewrite, rewrite! That's the frust...I mean, fun part! If the conversation/argument is a part of the character development/plot then include it. Maybe shorten it. For an example of excellent dialogue being used to advance plot/develop...

For the release of Kindle 2, Stephen King put out a book to be exclusively sold in a digital format for the device. How do people feel about the idea of authors (especially those well read) releasing material exclusively in this way? Someone mentioned that copyrights may have something...

alright. good. i'll look at that.

With the release of the second version of the Amazon Kindle and a Stephen King book exclusively published for it (i.e. digital and not in tangible book form), I am curious to everyone's opinion on books in a digital age. How do you feel about reading books in a digital format? Do you...

The reviews are so mixed. People love or hate this one. Every time I hear about Twilight, it just reminds me of old Buffy the Vampire Slayer plotlines....

Shouldn't we be encouraging children to read instead of restricting them?!

The Alchemist is a great book to reintroduce reading! Vonnegut is great too. Have you read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse? You may enjoy it if you like The Alchemist. It's short and sweet. You may enjoy other works by Paulo Coelho. Christopher Moore is good, quirky, funny and quick to read. :)

It is bad to have pointless dialogue. Your dialogue should drive your story, advance your plot, give character depth, etc. If it doesn't have a point, get rid of it. That can be true for every single sentence.

I agree with you Libra6 about the employees' position at the bookstore...they are retail workers, not librarians. As far as price goes.. B&N mostly sells Trade Paperbacks or Hardcovers, which have a higher price tag than mass market. I don't know if book prices have just gotten crazy over...

I didn't get the connection about your username until you mentioned it... That's pretty funny :) So far the Dollhouse clips are intriguing. At first the blurbs written about it made it sound like a knock off of the Bourne idea, but after seeing clips it's obviously not that at all.

Some great fiction involving homosexuality is written by Michael Cunningham (focus on male homosexuality) or Jeanette Winterson (dealing more with fluidity/androgyny/lesbianism). Michelle Tea is a writer from San Francisco and publishes through small presses, but writes on the subject as well.

His work is fantastic. Dollhouse is coming next month and I'm so excited! Any other Joss fans out there?