Speaking of Pullman, has anyone read the Sally Lockhart trilogy? I just started the 3rd book ( The Tiger in the Well). They are not His Dark Materials, but they are really good. Too bad the covers are so unappealing.
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
Numero Cinco ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
Glamcookie - Oct 30, 2009 9:26:08 am PDT #10311 of 28370
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
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2009 9:26:19 am PDT #10312 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Glam, that was sad, but I thought it made no sense and was very confused about why she wasn't dying, so that distracted from the emotional context.
-t - Oct 30, 2009 9:27:02 am PDT #10313 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ah, when William Morris meant Communism and not Talent Agents. Those were the days.
Hil R. - Oct 30, 2009 9:27:22 am PDT #10314 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Sorry. I remember a few months ago when someone was looking for pictures with a certain look, and I posted one of Evelyn Nesbit, somebody responded with something like, "Wow, I had no idea when I was reading her children's books that she was such a sexy babe," so I figured it was the same mistake again.
(Oh. It seems we've had this conversation before. Nevermind. DavidS "Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness" Jun 14, 2008 11:10:30 pm PDT )
Glamcookie - Oct 30, 2009 9:28:07 am PDT #10315 of 28370
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
Huh, it made sense to me. They had talked about people being separated from their daemons and not dying before it happened.
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2009 9:30:00 am PDT #10316 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I must have missed that, Glam. It was a major point made in the first book that you die if you're separated from your daemon. I thought it was a really cool idea, and then he just threw it out in the third book.
DavidS - Oct 30, 2009 9:34:44 am PDT #10317 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A bit more of her bio:
On 22 April 1880 Edith married Hubert Bland, though their unconventional marriage suffered from infidelity. Bland was one of the founders of the Fabian Society, of which Havelock Ellis, Eleanor Marx, and George Bernard Shaw were among its members. At this time Nesbit became an active socialist, cut her hair short and embraced the new values of the "advanced" woman. She and her husband jointly edited the Society's journal Today and entertained many friends and colleagues at their grand home Well Hall, Kent. Smoking cigarettes, the vivacious and bohemian dark haired Nesbit was always surrounded by a large circle of friends and admirers.
flea - Oct 30, 2009 9:43:00 am PDT #10318 of 28370
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And she died of lung cancer.
Ouise - Oct 30, 2009 10:08:49 am PDT #10319 of 28370
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Speaking of Pullman, has anyone read the Sally Lockhart trilogy?
I loved them, although I haven't read them in a while (a decade, maybe?) I still remember the outraged fury I felt (at the unjust laws, not the book) when I read The Tiger in the Smoke.
I'll have to borrow them from them library again. Yay, books!
Maysa - Oct 30, 2009 7:38:34 pm PDT #10320 of 28370
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me. So much so that I really couldn't read The Tiger in the Smoke objectively, I just wanted Fred to still be alive.