I hated My Antonia.
What?! Quit having wrong opinions.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
DavidS - Dec 02, 2009 7:45:02 am PST #10444 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 7:48:28 am PST #10445 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bored the crap out of me, man.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2009 7:51:20 am PST #10446 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Bored the crap out of me, man.
But it's got plows and dried mushrooms and immigrant girls! I fail to see what's boring about that.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 8:01:03 am PST #10447 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh man, I must have totally missed the dried mushrooms. I feel so deprived of an engaging reading experience.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 02, 2009 8:04:26 am PST #10448 of 28370
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I loved My Antonia. I liked The Awakening but for some reason totally missed the part where she kills herself at the end. I thought she was going for a refrshing swim.
Steph L. - Dec 02, 2009 8:29:05 am PST #10449 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
T-Rex fixes great works of fiction: [link]
T-Rex *almost* makes me want to re-read Moby Dick.
ALMOST.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 8:34:46 am PST #10450 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha, Sophia. That's basically ALL I remember about The Awakening.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2009 8:40:26 am PST #10451 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked it, but admittedly, not a page-turner. But that's probably what my great-grandma was kind of like, even though we don't come from Bohemia but a part of Germany that was often Poland.
sj - Dec 02, 2009 9:29:35 am PST #10452 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’d like every other book to be one I should have read but haven’t.
That is a great idea, Megan! I used to read mostly classics, but I have been feeling guilty about hardly reading any lately. I added the English version of the Cleves book to my wishlist (I don't read French). I had never heard of it before.
megan walker - Dec 02, 2009 9:37:50 am PST #10453 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've read many classics, especially English and French nineteenth century, but there always seems to be some key book I haven't got to. This all started with having to admit I hadn't read Don Quixote.