megan, are you looking for more themes also?
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'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."
Volans - Nov 03, 2010 5:29:46 pm PDT #12826 of 28289
move out and draw fire
Kat - Nov 03, 2010 5:54:37 pm PDT #12827 of 28289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm chiming in on The Things They Carried -- I love how it's a war story, but it's also a meta story about writing and storytelling.
Pix - Nov 03, 2010 6:10:14 pm PDT #12828 of 28289
The status is NOT quo.
Kat, yes, exactly. Such an amazing book.
brenda m - Nov 03, 2010 6:10:25 pm PDT #12829 of 28289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, I can't say enough about that book.
megan walker - Nov 03, 2010 9:13:35 pm PDT #12830 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan, are you looking for more themes also?
Sure. Always. I love making lists.
sumi - Nov 04, 2010 7:07:12 am PDT #12831 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
I just got challenged to read Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch in the original. I have never read this book and don't know anything about it. Has anyone here read this novel or anything else by Cortazar?
DavidS - Nov 04, 2010 8:04:19 am PDT #12832 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have never read this book and don't know anything about it.
Well, the title is a clue. Also it's considered a sort of precursor to HTML. It's a book where you can read the chapters in random order and still have a coherent narrative that changes depending on the order in which you read it.
Sue - Nov 04, 2010 8:12:41 am PDT #12833 of 28289
hip deep in pie
Has anyone here read this novel or anything else by Cortazar?
I read both Hopscotch and Around the Day in 80 Worlds in translation and really liked them. I think I was tweaked by some of the attitudes towards women in Hopscotch, but I can't really remember much about the actual plot now. I do remember feeling that it was a very "macho" book. Mostly I remember the main character drinking a lot of yerba mate.
It's a book where you can read the chapters in random order and still have a coherent narrative that changes depending on the order in which you read it.
It's not a random order. The chapters that outline the basic narrative of the book are still read in the proper linear order, but other chapters, which add layers to the story and characters, are read in two different possible orders. ETA: Wikipedia says there are a couple of other ways to read it, including randomly... [link]
Sue - Nov 04, 2010 8:14:03 am PDT #12834 of 28289
hip deep in pie
Also, one of his short stories was the basis of the movie Blow-up.
sumi - Nov 04, 2010 8:27:39 am PDT #12835 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!