And you'll remember that Jenny Garp had nonconsensual sex with Garp's father
Most of the time that's called rape.
Yeah... That went well.
Mal ,'Trash'
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."
Jessica - Oct 29, 2009 3:55:16 am PDT #10295 of 28374
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Glamcookie - Oct 29, 2009 4:05:40 pm PDT #10296 of 28374
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
The Amber Spyglass is one other.
Bet I know the part because I totally lost it in that book, too.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2009 4:55:43 pm PDT #10297 of 28374
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Amber Spyglass is one other.
Bet I know the part because I totally lost it in that book, too.
That made me cry, too, despite myself!
As did The Sweet Far Thing (damn you, Libba Bray!) and Deathly Hallows (when Harry is going to his death and his parents, et al., show up and accompany him).
Polter-Cow - Oct 29, 2009 5:09:52 pm PDT #10298 of 28374
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bet I know the part because I totally lost it in that book, too.
Wait, which part are we talking about?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 30, 2009 12:50:49 am PDT #10299 of 28374
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Wait, which part are we talking about?
About the last fifteen pages. My copy got decidedly damp.
flea - Oct 30, 2009 5:39:47 am PDT #10300 of 28374
information libertarian
I just reread The Railway Children last night, and this morning looked up E. Nesbit. Turns out she was a socialist who got married at 7 months pregnant (in 1880) and lived in an open marriage, raising her husband's two other children as her own. Whoa.
-t - Oct 30, 2009 5:56:11 am PDT #10301 of 28374
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just looked her up recently because I read a review of a new book that has a character based on her. The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt.
Scrappy - Oct 30, 2009 8:12:04 am PDT #10302 of 28374
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
God, I love The Railway Children.
flea - Oct 30, 2009 8:24:27 am PDT #10303 of 28374
information libertarian
I rolled my eyes a bit when Peter is given the lecture about being a man and the girls are soft tenderhearted rabbits. But I cry at the end. It's also interesting, the kids are about 8, 10, and 12 - they seem *much* younger in some ways.
DavidS - Oct 30, 2009 9:11:55 am PDT #10304 of 28374
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wasn't E. Nesbit quite the sexy babe as well as having the scandalous, revolutionary lifestyle?