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.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Laga - Aug 18, 2010 2:04:11 pm PDT #12012 of 28342
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
beth b - Aug 18, 2010 5:15:53 pm PDT #12020 of 28342
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Stress/comfort rereader too. I have been rereading Harry Potter at night, but a few other things during the day
Consuela - Aug 18, 2010 5:17:23 pm PDT #12021 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
How many books are in that series? Is there a drop off? Are they all worth it?
There's, um, five in the initial Tomorrow series. There's a bit of a dropoff; the last one is still exciting, but rather a downer. But my very favorite set-piece (a wild ride involving infiltrating an airfield, blowing up the fueling airplanes, and escaping in a dumptruck pursued by machine-gun-wielding enemies) is in the 3rd or 4th book, I think.
There's a second series set after the end of the first, but while it's psychologically very plausible, it's also much less fun.
I do a lot of rereading: particularly Bujold & Pratchett these days. I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.