Some books I'll try to reread because I didn't care for them the first time, but I heard good things about them from people whose taste I respect. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an author whose books worked for me much better the second time around. Maybe the same will happen with Moby Dick.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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."
Calli - Aug 18, 2010 11:55:12 am PDT #12010 of 28342
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Atropa - Aug 18, 2010 12:30:29 pm PDT #12011 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
If I want to re-read something, my brain will generally not latch on to something new. I can't work up any interest in something new that I previously really wanted to read, *if* I'm currently wanting to re-read something. I can't explain it. My brain wants what it wants.
Good lord, Teppy and I really are sisters or something. I have a stack of new books to read right now. Am I reading any of them? No. I am re-reading The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, because my brain wants florid, overwrought vampire comfort food.
Laga - Aug 18, 2010 2:04:11 pm PDT #12012 of 28342
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Calli, if my copy of Moby Dick hadn't had all those notes and explanations in the back... I probably would have made it through but I wouldn't have enjoyed it half as much so I highly recommend finding a copy with lots of notes. I had two bookmarks going most of the time, one was where I was at in the text and the next was the page that had the next notation.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2010 4:04:10 pm PDT #12013 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
No. I am re-reading The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, because my brain wants florid, overwrought vampire comfort food.
Ahahahahaha!!! I rejected Queen of the Damned last night in favor of...
The Witching Hour. Trufax.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 4:08:04 pm PDT #12014 of 28342
Because books.
Oh god, I love The Witching Hour. It's my favorite Anne Rice. And it's been packed in a box in the garage for five years now. I almost broke and picked up a used copy two different times.
Atropa - Aug 18, 2010 4:31:22 pm PDT #12015 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.
FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 4:41:05 pm PDT #12016 of 28342
Because books.
I do, I do!
sarameg - Aug 18, 2010 5:00:35 pm PDT #12017 of 28342
dcp, my childhood involved my dad reading the Hobbit through the whole LotR trilogy to me over breakfast starting in kinder. I've never touched the books since, but I LOVED it. I've only seen the first movie, because while it got some things right, I didn't want it to displace any of my memories/mental visuals of what my dad's voice reading it created. Gollum wasn't quite right, and I still resent that.
eta: My mom would read me Laura Ingalls Wilder to me at night during the same period. I never watched the show. Seems to be a pattern.
No idea my first book, nor when I started reading, will have to ask my mom. We had/have tons of books. I only found out recently my mother HATED Dr. Seuss and suffered mightily through our love of them, but sees his value. They just make her a little bored out of her gourd.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2010 5:04:17 pm PDT #12018 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had this Howdy Doody book that I was obsessed with, and my mother hated. I can only remember as far back as being able to read it myself, but I'm sure I made her read it to me. It was hilarious! They made a big Howdy Doody out of food! Hilarious when you're 4, anyway...
dcp - Aug 18, 2010 5:08:19 pm PDT #12019 of 28342
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Heh. Dad's Gollum-voice was pretty sinister, but very different from Andy Serkis's version.
Dad's put on his best faux-Cockney accent for the trolls Bert and Tom and William. Hilarious.