So, I guess I won't bother reading the Vampire Diaries.
I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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."
sumi - Jan 28, 2010 5:55:27 am PST #10822 of 28359
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Jan 28, 2010 8:52:37 am PST #10823 of 28359
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Jan 28, 2010 9:08:44 am PST #10824 of 28359
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I never read Catcher in the Rye but I'm a big Franny & Zooey fan.
Also, I love that The Royal Tenenbaums is so thoroughly Salingeresque.
erikaj - Jan 28, 2010 9:10:49 am PST #10825 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked "Catcher" a lot.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 28, 2010 9:15:39 am PST #10826 of 28359
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I liked both Catcher and the short stories. It's a shame he didn't write more.
Tom Scola - Jan 28, 2010 9:19:52 am PST #10827 of 28359
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's a shame he didn't write more.
He claimed he has, but he just didn't want to share it with anyone.
Polter-Cow - Jan 28, 2010 9:21:53 am PST #10828 of 28359
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, I guess it's time to Emily Dickinson it up.
DavidS - Jan 28, 2010 9:23:29 am PST #10829 of 28359
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It'll be interesting to see if anything is published now that he's dead.
This is fascinating:
Meanwhile, Mr. Salinger had been drafted. He served with the Counter Intelligence Corps of the Fourth Infantry Division, whose job was to interview Nazi deserters and sympathizers, and was stationed for a while in Tiverton, Devonshire, the setting for “For Esmé — With Love and Squalor,” probably the most deeply felt of the “Nine Stories.” On June 6, 1944, he landed at Utah Beach, and he later saw action during the Battle of the Bulge.
In 1945 he was hospitalized for “battle fatigue” — often a euphemism for a breakdown — and after recovering, he stayed on in Europe past the end of the war chasing Nazi functionaries. He married a German woman, very briefly — a doctor about whom biographers have been able to discover very little. Her name was Sylvia, Margaret Salinger said, but Mr. Salinger always called her Saliva.
Somebody needs to write a story about that! He'd hate it, but it's very ripe material.
Tom Scola - Jan 28, 2010 9:26:58 am PST #10830 of 28359
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In 1974, in a rare interview given to The New York Times, he said: "I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure." In her memoir, his daughter Margaret Salinger noted that he did keep writing, and set up a detailed filing system for his unpublished manuscripts: "A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this 'as is,' blue meant publish but edit first, and so on."
Rayne - Jan 28, 2010 9:28:40 am PST #10831 of 28359
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Sumi, The first four books of The Vampire Diaries are completely different from the newest one (they were also written about twenty years ago and it feels like the author didn't bother brushing up on them before continuing the series last year).
In my opinion, they're worth reading, especially if you're watching the tv series and want to see all the differences between the books and the show. (I read them growing up and loved them!)
Just avoid the newer books like the plague!