That was awesome. "I'm popular!... but sensitive." made Calvin O'Keefe seem just a little Edward from Twilight which is wrong but funny anyway.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Gris - Jan 17, 2011 3:59:58 am PST #13623 of 28288
Hey. New board.
sumi - Jan 17, 2011 6:48:07 am PST #13624 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
Game of Thrones tv cover tie-in revealed: here. Interesting choice.
But possibly more about having the pretty girl with the odd-colored hair on the cover than anything more thematic.
tiggy - Jan 17, 2011 7:49:58 am PST #13625 of 28288
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
watching the Golden Globes last night made me think of another good choice for President Snow. Steve Buscemi.
DavidS - Jan 18, 2011 10:43:21 am PST #13626 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has anybody read Barbara Comyns?
I'm intrigued by her books The Vet's Daughter and Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead.
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2011 11:36:13 am PST #13627 of 28288
brillig
Has anyone here used LibriVox? It's a website with free recordings of public domain books. I'm looking at a long bus trip and was thinking of listening to a book on my mp3 player. Is the quality good? The readers are volunteers, and I don't know how good they are. (And I'm thinking it could be fun to volunteer myself.)
Consuela - Jan 18, 2011 2:50:28 pm PST #13628 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Connie, the reading quality at Librivox is really a crapshoot. Some of it's okay, some of it is ... not. The worst, I find, is when they have a different reader for each chapter of the book.
The one audiobook I really enjoyed from Librivox was Scaramouche, because the reader was quite good and was able to pronounce the French with some accuracy.
I recommend downloading sample chapters from a few different books and finding a reader you like, then backtracking that reader. I have entire books I got from Librivox I can't listen to because the reader mumbles, or mispronounces words, or just annoys me.
megan walker - Jan 18, 2011 2:53:27 pm PST #13629 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The one audiobook I really enjoyed from Librivox was Scaramouche
Great, now I have "Bohemian Rhapsody" in my head.
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2011 2:56:21 pm PST #13630 of 28288
brillig
(resisting remarks about the fandango)
Thanks, Consuela!
Gris - Jan 19, 2011 2:41:19 am PST #13631 of 28288
Hey. New board.
I know we have some Amazon boycotters, but for those of us who are not of that persuasion you can buy a $20 Amazon gift card for $10 today at Living Social. Mine will be applied towards Kindle books for sure!
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2011 6:34:30 am PST #13632 of 28288
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