What did Desmond Morris do wrong?
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
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."
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 3:01:47 pm PST #13557 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 3:04:16 pm PST #13558 of 28282
brillig
Michener's Hawaii, Drury's Advise and Consent, Winnie the Pooh in Latin, and To Kill a Mockingbird. And Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. What a studious week that was. Though The Snake has All the Lines looks intriguing.
zuisa - Jan 11, 2011 3:05:08 pm PST #13559 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Winnie the Pooh in Latin? How interesting! Seems strange that that would be a bestseller, but I suppose I'm underestimating people.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 3:06:03 pm PST #13560 of 28282
brillig
In all fairness, Mockingbird is rated higher than the silly bear.
dcp - Jan 11, 2011 3:52:33 pm PST #13561 of 28282
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.
Laga - Jan 11, 2011 3:53:33 pm PST #13562 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I got a spy novel too, one I don't know by an author I've never heard of. I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Fred Pete - Jan 12, 2011 4:06:25 am PST #13563 of 28282
Ann, that's a ferret.
Also fun -- looking up the best-sellers on the dates of specific events.
Richard Nixon resigned on 8/9/1974. Fiction best-sellers included Watership Down, Jaws, and Burr. Non-fiction best-sellers included All the President's Men, The Gulag Archipelago (at #1 and #2, even), Plain Speaking, and Rose Kennedy's memoirs.
Quite a list.
Gudanov - Jan 12, 2011 6:31:38 am PST #13564 of 28282
Coding and Sleeping
If you are looking for a free e-book, I'd recommend this one written by a friend of mine. It's a fantasy novel and it's a bit different. I was a beta reader and I suspect this version will be better than the one I read and I liked that one.
Amy - Jan 12, 2011 8:09:11 am PST #13565 of 28282
Because books.
I'm struggling with the whole "not buying new books" until I've read some of the ones I own. There are so many I need want, precioussssss.
sj - Jan 12, 2011 8:11:03 am PST #13566 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm struggling with the whole "not buying new books" until I've read some of the ones I own. There are so many I need want, precioussssss.
Me too. Right now I am trying to restrict myself to $20 a month, but it is still hard.