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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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sj - Sep 11, 2006 7:43:25 pm PDT #1208 of 28134
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

sj, I was just reading Imperial San Francisco and it had all kinds of fascinating scuttlebutt about my hometown. Lots of skullduggery and wild scandal and blackmail and - curiously - lots of newspapermen shooting each other. The town is founded on two papers the Chronicle and the Examiner - and they were owned by the De Youngs (see, our main art museum) and the Hearts (see Citizen Kane). Anyway - shooting and killing people over editorials!

That sounds more like something I would be more interested in than Teacup Guy would be, but I will keep it in mind.

Edited, because I really can form sentences when I am not half asleep.

DavidS - Sep 11, 2006 8:17:43 pm PDT #1209 of 28134
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It's a work of art. And great porn.

What more can you ask for?!?

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 12, 2006 11:38:11 am PDT #1210 of 28134
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I finally got around to reading Ursula K. LeGuin's Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind last month. SO thrilled that they have the same "feel" as the original trilogy, as if these are folk tales passed down through generation after generation that I'm just now being told for the first time. Tehanu had me worried that I wouldn't like any of her more recent writing.

Scrappy - Sep 12, 2006 11:49:18 am PDT #1211 of 28134
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I am reading Howl's Moving Castle and loving it. Why did I not listen to everyone who told me about Diana Wynne Jones before this? WHY? What other books of hers do you all recommend?

Atropa - Sep 12, 2006 1:09:16 pm PDT #1212 of 28134
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

(Jilli, if you're around, you must never, never read this book, as you would probably find it upsetting in ways you didn't even know were possible.)

So what you're saying is that I should let Pete read it first when the copy we ordered finally turns up? Okay.

Jessica - Sep 12, 2006 1:32:25 pm PDT #1213 of 28134
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't know how attached you are to the source materials as childhood stories, but I think there are things happening to Wendy Darling in this book that you would not like.

[I would, however, highly recommend watching Pete while he reads book 3, as I imagine his facial expressions will be quite entertaining.]

Anne W. - Sep 12, 2006 1:33:54 pm PDT #1214 of 28134
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

For any of you who are enjoying "His Majesty's Dragon," this is very interesting news.

Atropa - Sep 12, 2006 1:35:56 pm PDT #1215 of 28134
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I don't know how attached you are to the source materials as childhood stories,

Not as attached as people might suspect. I'm okay with those stories being subverted. I just don't want to know if Winnie the Pooh porn exists.

but I think there are things happening to Wendy Darling in this book that you would not like.

Hmm. I think I'll stick with the plan of making Pete read the book first.

Atropa - Sep 12, 2006 1:36:40 pm PDT #1216 of 28134
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

[I would, however, highly recommend watching Pete while he reads book 3, as I imagine his facial expressions will be quite entertaining.]

Bwah! Okay, I'll keep that in mind.

JZ - Sep 12, 2006 1:42:08 pm PDT #1217 of 28134
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I already know that I won't be able to cope at all with Lost Girls, which makes me sad because I so much love Alan Moore. And I've read enough interviews with him and reviews of the book that I understand intellectually what he and his coauthor/artist are doing and why, I respect it enormously, and I'll defend it ferociously, but I still know there's absolutely no way I personally can read it.

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