Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
HA! Debetesse, at least that's an understandable misreading. Hand to god, I had a student write about how the poem Hollow Men is about scarecrows!
I finished Julie Powell's book Cleaving. What an unpleasant book that is. It's not the infidelity, or the smugness of her HAWT ROUGH SEX LIFE, it's the smarminess that kills. And the boringness of the whole thing.
Oh- I remembered that they were reading a book repeatedly, but I forgot all about the GWTW. Granted, it has been about 20 years since I read the book.
Is it possible the student only read the first and last chapters or something?
He got the middle right, apart from not using Johnny's name, but it's such an odd mistake to make, that I think it must be organic, rather than from Cliff's Notes or whatever.
So nice to see a student making his own mistakes! originality counts!
As God is my witness, I'll never get in a knife fight with the Socs again!
I'm three chapters into Changeless, and I think I'm liking it more than Soulless. Since it's the second book, we can get right into the actual plot without spending time explaining all the worldbuilding, so there's much more of a sense of purpose than in Soulless, which meandered about for hundreds of pages before really getting interesting.
For those who've enjoyed Boneshaker, I picked up one of Cherie Priest's earlier books, Nor Flesh nor Feathers; it's pretty good, although it's the third in the series and relies on some information from earlier books. However, it had a line that's stuck with me, "You're going to fight zombies with fireworks"
I wish we had something here in Literary like they have in Library Thing, a sidebar that lists all the books that get mentioned here that's generated by tags in the posts. I keep meaning to go to the library and pick up some of the book mentioned, and it's a pain to find the references after the fact.
That's funny: I'm about 75% of the way through Changeless and am not liking it nearly as much as Soulless.
I think I like the world more than the characters, so the building of the world was exciting, but the living in it isn't as much.