I have very fond memories of my Dad reading The Hobbit to me.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
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."
Atropa - Dec 20, 2010 12:17:51 pm PST #13294 of 28281
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Volans - Dec 20, 2010 2:08:49 pm PST #13295 of 28281
move out and draw fire
We're reading How to Train Your Dragon, which isn't at all like the movie (although I'm still doing a Craig Ferguson impression for Gobber), so I hope that when we start The Hobbit (maybe next), there will be less fussing about the differences between the book and the movie.
Dana - Dec 20, 2010 5:30:02 pm PST #13296 of 28281
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My parents got us a Kindle. Dude.
Now I'm not entirely sure what to do with it.
Strix - Dec 20, 2010 5:32:47 pm PST #13297 of 28281
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Dana, you will HATE it. You should obviously send it to me, so I can spare you time and heartache.
I wouldn't do this for just ANYONE.....
(And the answer is load very hefty tomes on it, and enjoy the lightness.)
Consuela - Dec 20, 2010 6:50:52 pm PST #13298 of 28281
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dana, you can load fic on it! (I hear: I don't know how, myself.)
Cass - Dec 20, 2010 6:53:37 pm PST #13299 of 28281
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, you can. Trust me.
Dana - Dec 21, 2010 6:56:37 am PST #13300 of 28281
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
That is definitely the plan. One of the plans.
Ginger - Dec 21, 2010 7:01:55 am PST #13301 of 28281
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I wish to note this horror publicly: Someone has written in the library book I'm reading. The only mitigating factor is that it's in pencil, but I feel like reading with an eraser in hand.
Beverly - Dec 21, 2010 9:11:58 am PST #13302 of 28281
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh now see, for me that's always interesting, given that the previous reader had something perceptive to say.
We had a favorite used book store in a university town, and one weekend when we were in, a notable faculty member's estate had just cleared. He left all his "formal" library to the school's library. His working library wound up at the used books. Poetry and short stories and novels--all the standdard English and American writers, some translations from German and Russian. And in every volume there was highlighted text, margin notes in tiny script, sometimes wrapping around the block of print from a side margin up to the header or down to the footer. As most of the material was fairly familiar, the notes were far more interesting than the text--and gave new insights and perspectives. Fascinating.
A note scribbled in pencil, though, "This sux!" is perhaps not as thrilling.
Connie Neil - Dec 21, 2010 9:40:22 am PST #13303 of 28281
brillig
I've seen where "helpful" people have put in notes saying "Don't read this part!" before a sex scene--or simply got out a marker and crossed out the offending passage. And then they blithely return the book, probably filled with satisfaction at having improved the world.