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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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JZ - May 13, 2010 4:56:38 pm PDT #11404 of 28344
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon might qualify as a quest -- it's about a girl lost in the woods and trying to get out. But it seems kind of tangential to the quest theme, and it isn't very memorable.

Huh. I kind of thoroughly adored it. I don't know if one needs to be a girl starved for girl-centered quests to adore it, but it definitely entranced me. And even more so on re-reading a year or so ago.

So, YTGWLTGMV.

Ginger - May 13, 2010 5:01:23 pm PDT #11405 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.

Yesss. Join me on the dark side.

DavidS - May 13, 2010 5:02:37 pm PDT #11406 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.

One of us. Gabba Gabba Hey.

Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:24:29 pm PDT #11407 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Watching the American Experience on whaling this week made me want to re-read it for the first time ever.

Kat - May 13, 2010 5:29:16 pm PDT #11408 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Jesse, I'm reading it as part of NPRs I will if you will book club. Best concept ever.

Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:35:49 pm PDT #11409 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's hilarious.

Kat - May 13, 2010 5:37:10 pm PDT #11410 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Jesse: [link] the latest blog post about it. I agree. Whale fatigue has set in.

Their first I Will If You Will book, interestingly, was Twilight!

Hayden - May 13, 2010 5:40:29 pm PDT #11411 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I have to say, I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.

My screen name is Corwood Industries and I approve of this statement.

Kat - May 13, 2010 5:45:00 pm PDT #11412 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I wonder what their next book will be. I think something light. But I totally think a great I Will if You Will would be Ulysses. Or Swann's Way. Or Don Quixote.

Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:47:04 pm PDT #11413 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was relieved to learn, at least, that Moby Dick was a commercial failure and the end of Melville's career. Not because I'm saying it's not good (I have no idea; my 16 year old self wasn't into it, but that doesn't mean anything), but because I could never believe it would be generally popular.

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