Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


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."


DavidS - Oct 08, 2010 11:10:22 am PDT #12584 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This is the cover I'd want: [link]

Oooh, gorgeous.


Atropa - Oct 08, 2010 11:13:35 am PDT #12585 of 28297
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

The cover of the first edition. One of the books I covet the most.


Atropa - Oct 08, 2010 11:16:21 am PDT #12586 of 28297
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Huh. My treasured (and signed!) childhood copy of Something Wicked is a collectible: [link]

Must get Pete to scan the photo of Mr. Bradbury holding Clovis.


§ ita § - Oct 08, 2010 11:17:18 am PDT #12587 of 28297
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm trying to work out who wears a baby T of Lolita. Because I really really want one. But? It seems rife with...rifeness.


zuisa - Oct 08, 2010 11:48:19 am PDT #12588 of 28297
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

My friend forgot to bring her copy of the Hunger Games to lend me. But it's all ok, because I didn't get called to work today anyway and so had no time to read.

Has anyone here ever read Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin? I read it recently and was sort of blown away by how amazing it was.


JZ - Oct 08, 2010 11:53:30 am PDT #12589 of 28297
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I'd really rather have this or this.

And also this, this, this and this.


zuisa - Oct 08, 2010 11:56:19 am PDT #12590 of 28297
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

Ooh, those are some pretty fantastic book covers!


JZ - Oct 08, 2010 11:57:07 am PDT #12591 of 28297
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I haven't read Winter's Tale in about twenty years, but the last time I did it made me cry repeatedly. Parts of it are still vivid in my dreamscapes -- all those turn-of-some-other-century-that-never-quite-was New York winters. And I'd know the Lake of the Coheeries the second I saw it, if I was ever fortunate enough to find it.


Deena - Oct 08, 2010 11:58:10 am PDT #12592 of 28297
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I love this site for book shirts: [link]

The kids have already outgrown their pigeon t-shirts, but Kara still has a Viola Swamp sweatshirt.


-t - Oct 08, 2010 11:59:18 am PDT #12593 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I did (read a Winter's Tale ), a long time ago, and loved it. On the strength of that, I read Memoir from an Antproof Case when it came out and was disappointed.

Edited for context