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Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?
In this hilarious collection of true stories from Beatrices days as one the Internets leading cult TV gurus, the author shares with readers her fun and sometimes bizarre world where stupidity frustrates, wit triumphs, and connections are made in most unlikely ways.
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
July 15th 2007
by Sourcebooks
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Meredith Martin
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anyone involved in or curious about the craziness that is fandom
Words cannot describe my love for this book. This is a funny, snarky, honest look at the joys and insanities of internet fandom. Having been sucked fairly deep into fandom recently, I've had to try to explain to more mundane friends and family just how it is that a group of people from around the country and around the world with little in common besides love for a tv show, book, or movie can connect so quickly and so strongly. Fandom has given me tons of new friends, lots of new ideas, great...more
Perhaps this book would be more interesting if I'd never participated in online fandom. It sounds like the author had some interesting experiences to share, and had this been my first exposure to fannish communities, maybe the positive notes would have made more of an impression than the stories of trolls, the hammering upon the potentially fraught relationship between fans and producers, and the entire essay about her fear of being seen as a name-dropping impostor. By the end, though, I was t...more
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I'll probably read any book that has to do with buffy. This one explores the world of fandom through the experience of a Buffy and Joss Whedon chatroom junky and show promoter. Some of the essays are funny, but I am often left wondering why I should care. Also, the author starts the book by basically insulting the show and those that are still in it, trying to drive the point that the book is about fandom and the communities it forms, and not about the show, which is so 10 years ago. But still, ...more
If you are already a member of fandom, Allyson Beatrice’s book Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? (WTVPPLTL) won’t actually tell you anything you don’t already know. For example, anyone who is a part of fandom (any fandom - not just the Jossverse) knows that there are hugely generous fans and, at the other end of the spectrum, asshats. Fandom folk know that the Internet can be scary and also scary fun.
Based on Beatrice’s own experiences in the Buffy/Angel/Firefly fandom,...more
Based on Beatrice’s own experiences in the Buffy/Angel/Firefly fandom,...more
May I just say I'm astounded at how this person ever got a book contract?
Internet fandom is a promising topic, but the book fails utterly. Beatrice is not only an writer without gifts, but she also seems to think that she's the only person who has formed close bonds with people she met initially online, that trolls and responses to them (including spin-off boards, I might add) are something worthy of explication, and that she can compose an entire chapter of cut-and-paste from the Ta...more
Internet fandom is a promising topic, but the book fails utterly. Beatrice is not only an writer without gifts, but she also seems to think that she's the only person who has formed close bonds with people she met initially online, that trolls and responses to them (including spin-off boards, I might add) are something worthy of explication, and that she can compose an entire chapter of cut-and-paste from the Ta...more
Well, since I have a pretty active presence on the internet, I related to a lot of the essays in here, even though I have never seen a single episode of BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I am forever interested in the sociology of the internet culture, and I have had some experience with meeting my "heroes" via the internet, so some of this rang very true for me. Still, her tone was a bit snarky, even for me.
I guess I was expecting more wacky stories from fandom, not so much a rumination on the author's life. Or maybe I was just in a weird place when I read this. Ended up not finishing it, just because I have a bunch of other books and this one wasn't really holding my attention.
Fast, enjoyable read. I had no idea there were people who liked Buffy so much. I'll have to watch more episodes. Favorite essays in this book: Gay Wedding Tree and Together, Alone. PS - I watched the episode "Seeing Red" - the one where Tara dies, which made the fans totally freak out. Personally, I didn't see what the big deal was, mostly because - from what I could tell - Tara had only been in a few episodes before she died! How could people get so attached to a character who w...more
I would like to say, I proudly count myself as one of the Vampire People. While I was not all that active at The Bronze, I was there on occasion. And, I did go on the first ever SlayerCruise, it was a blast!! I got to sit at James Leary's (Clem) table.
Anyway, with that said, after the first chapter, I hated Allyson. She was actually someone who has spoken to Tim Minear...and considers him a friend! hate her. But in that good sort of jealous way....further into the book, I was laughin...more
Anyway, with that said, after the first chapter, I hated Allyson. She was actually someone who has spoken to Tim Minear...and considers him a friend! hate her. But in that good sort of jealous way....further into the book, I was laughin...more
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It's a rare event where I start crying when I'm checking out at Barnes and Noble. In fact, with the exception of blanching a little at the total when buying books for law school, I can't remember ever being this emotional about buying a book.
Certainly I've purchased books with breathless anticipation, marking on my calendar when the next Elizabeth Peters book is to come out (not yet announced date, but apparently it's a Vicky Bliss novel) or preordered the next Harry Potter (July 21...more
Certainly I've purchased books with breathless anticipation, marking on my calendar when the next Elizabeth Peters book is to come out (not yet announced date, but apparently it's a Vicky Bliss novel) or preordered the next Harry Potter (July 21...more
I remember seeing this book touted on Whedonesque when it came out, and judging from the title that it would be just an extended livejournal entry on the awesomeness of the Buffyverse. I didn't have any intention of reading it--I love Buffy, and many of my friends love Buffy, and we talk enough about how awesome it is that I don't feel any particular need to have total strangers (who are no more articulate than my friends) tell me how and why it is awesome when in the last episode of the last s...more
Allyson Beatrice lives a not-quite-ordinary life. Her job and almost everyone she knows are the result of spending too much time on the Internet talking about vampires, slayers and lesbian witches. And her encounters are even more unusual than you'd imagine.
A hilarious collection of true stories from Allyson's days as one of the Internet's leading cult TV fan gurus, her mind-boggling escapades include meetings with network executives in dark steakhouses to try to save doomed TV show...more
A hilarious collection of true stories from Allyson's days as one of the Internet's leading cult TV fan gurus, her mind-boggling escapades include meetings with network executives in dark steakhouses to try to save doomed TV show...more
this is such a laugh at yourself and others like you type of book. it was nice to read about people who are way more obsessive than myself over silly things like tv shows. This book tells the true life tales of Allyson who finds herself intellectually obsessed with all things Buffy... she even moved to LA to be more in the thick of what she seemed devoted to.
being that Allyson and i are of similar age and after reading the book we have similar preferences as well, it made me take a d...more
being that Allyson and i are of similar age and after reading the book we have similar preferences as well, it made me take a d...more
Eugenia
marked it as to-read
Product description from Amazon: Allyson Beatrice lives a not-quite-ordinary life. Her job and almost everyone she knows are the result of spending too much time on the Internet talking about vampires, slayers and lesbian witches. And her encounters are even more unusual than you'd imagine. A hilarious collection of true stories from Allyson's days as one of the Internet's leading cult TV fan gurus, her mind-boggling escapades include meetings with network executives in dark steakhouses to try t...more
Reading about fellow nerds was actually pretty entertaining for me. I am a new-comer to the whole Buffy phenomenon and this book was funny and strange and fully embraced every nerdy aspect of fan conventions and blogs and obsessive fandom. Read it if you are a closet nerd (or an out-of-the-closet nerd. Either way) and want to laugh a little.
This is a really fabulous book. It's a collection of essays about the author's involvement in cult (Buffy) fandom. I hate Buffy, but I love this book. It's snarky and surreal, since she never makes any money through her semi-celebrity status, but worked her butt off online (and in RL/meatspace) to organize fundraisers, cons and 'save our show' campaigns.
It is much wackiness.
It is much wackiness.
I throughly enjoyed this book. I was active in Buffy fandom from a different perspective - i was scared of the Bronze and found my home in Buffys Domain of Delight's posting board Anywhere But Here - however the stories she recounts about fandom uproar and the weirdos who influence fandom (her penlid tale is great) strike home - but none quite as much as the way that back in 1997 we can to explain the fact that we had best friendsd we'd met onlinein a different way, like it was a shameful thing ...more
She was so focused on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the community that bonded around it that she couldn't discuss anything else. After reading a couple of chapters, I put it down.
Jennifer
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This book captured the feel of belonging to a forum, of being part of an internet community, almost perfectly. It made me nostalgic for my forum days. I loved it, right up until the end, when they decide to raise money to bring one of their friends on a US tour. Don't get me wrong, I think it was a wonderful gesture and an example of community and whatnot, but she suddenly switched to a post-log (which was -very- spaced out) and quite frankly, I didn't care enough to slog through it. That pa...more
Dated but funny and a cute look into adult fandom for those of us who are interested in something other than sports and enjoy sci fi and fantasy
Not the dishy tell-all I had been expecting, and at times only tangentally about the Buffy fandom at all, it is, however, a excellent bit of insight into how participation in online fandom can affect one's life. It will be familiar in many ways to those of us who participate, and may be a good introduction to those who haven't and have often heard sketchy details about where their fannish loved ones have met their friends.
An interesting book for Joss/Buffy fans and those who follow fandoms in general.
Darla
marked it as to-read
I actually got this book for Christmas in 2007 and still haven't read it.
An interesting and enjoyable read with some gems of sentences throughout.
This was okay, not as good as the "Good Ship Enterprise" though.
This book does not believe in the serial comma, which irritated the heck out of me. Besides that, it was well-written, friendly, and very enjoyable. It's a bit funny to read a book about fandom written for non-fans, and it has very little to say about the actual show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but it was very interesting to read about the fan gatherings from the perspective of an organizer, and fun to recognize fan actions in the context of a fandom I've never participated in. Good quick read ...more
Mostly funny.
Just wonderful. Funny and witty as hell, this book reminds me why I love the Internet and all the goofy fanfolk on it.
I didn't think I'd like this book because it started out entirely about buffy fandom - I haven't seen the series at all, and didn't have any reference point. after a couple of essays though I was able to relate the book back to my own habit of making lots of internet fiens and it was much more enjoyable.
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