Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?

'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."


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.

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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her memoir, his daughter Margaret Salinger noted that he did keep writing, and set up a detailed filing system for his unpublished manuscripts: "A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this 'as is,' blue meant publish but edit first, and so on."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!


Jesse - Jan 28, 2010 9:29:27 am PST #10832 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"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."

Wow, so there will likely be a flood of new Salinger stuff? That's amazing.

And will make me think of him as being like Tupac.


erikaj - Jan 28, 2010 9:33:32 am PST #10833 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!

Probably the only time that will happen, Jesse.


Jesse - Jan 28, 2010 9:34:11 am PST #10834 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Right??


Dana - Jan 28, 2010 9:36:31 am PST #10835 of 28359
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

“For Esmé — With Love and Squalor,”

Oh, that's probably the source of the character name Esme Squalor from A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Yes, that's me. I know my Lemony Snickett, but not so much about Salinger.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 28, 2010 9:57:23 am PST #10836 of 28359
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Well, I guess it's time to Emily Dickinson it up.

Interesting.


Toddson - Jan 28, 2010 10:03:36 am PST #10837 of 28359
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Well, the bright spot in an otherwise shitty day is that the sequel to "e" is out ... "e2". That's pretty much the only good thing to happen to me today, other than actually getting out for a "lunch" break.


§ ita § - Jan 28, 2010 10:24:03 am PST #10838 of 28359
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't believe you haven't read Catcher, Hec. I thought you were standards guy.

Me, I hated it.

I read the summaries of Vampire Diaries on Wikipedia. Crack! And I'm pretty sure the CW series is not going there.


DavidS - Jan 28, 2010 10:24:51 am PST #10839 of 28359
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I can't believe you haven't read Catcher, Hec. I thought you were standards guy.

I suspect it's one of those books you need to read by a certain age for it really resonate.