There's also any of the three volumes of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire, a 3-volume history of the Americas told in short vignettes, snippets of diaries, retellings of myths, songs and flights of pure fantasy; the longest is about 3 pages, most are half a page to a full page, and some are only two or three paragraphs. The first volume, Genesis, is particularly vivid and fast-moving.
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
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."
JZ - Jan 20, 2011 3:09:12 pm PST #13681 of 28289
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ginger - Jan 20, 2011 3:36:00 pm PST #13682 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tom Jones?
Some of the metaphysical poets? A large proportion of their work includes conceits of love and passion. "To His Coy Mistress" is the best known, but Donne wrote poems like "The Flea" and "That Time and Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts to Loves." Most of Lovelace is about passion.
Amy - Jan 20, 2011 4:15:03 pm PST #13683 of 28289
Because books.
In not-so-literary news, I finally finished The Strain. Has anyone read the next book in the trilogy?
sj - Jan 20, 2011 4:58:10 pm PST #13684 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy, the second book is on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet. I'm trying to figure out if I remember enough of the first book to not have to re-read it first.
Amy - Jan 20, 2011 5:08:15 pm PST #13685 of 28289
Because books.
Reread the last chapter. Everything you need to know is right there.
I ended up really loving Vasily Fet, the exterminator. He was a really pleasant surprise.
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2011 5:20:10 pm PST #13686 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hey, on that $20 Amazon gift card for $10 from yesterday -- apparently LivingSocial sold well over 1 million of them. Daaaaaaaamn.
Liese S. - Jan 20, 2011 5:27:30 pm PST #13687 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
If I were buying another Pratchett book for my nook, and I'm not saying I am, what with the thirty or so public domain books I downloaded over the weekend and all, but if I were, should I buy Nation, which I have not read, but is out of the Discworld, or Wee Free Men, which I have read, but my current library doesn't have and I love and also I have the last Tiffany Aching book so I could get the first and start building that collection which I don't have in paper?
-t - Jan 20, 2011 5:47:01 pm PST #13688 of 28289
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nation is really good. Highly recommend. Though building up the Tiffany Aching collection is never wrong.
erikaj - Jan 21, 2011 4:29:44 am PST #13689 of 28289
Always Anti-fascist!
I love that book, Barb. It's both relatable and very different from what I knew when I read it at the same time...tough balance to strike and I really admired it.
Fred Pete - Jan 21, 2011 5:04:54 am PST #13690 of 28289
Ann, that's a ferret.
Dangerous Liaisons is an interesting idea; is it accessible?
At least as accessible as most 18th century works, and probably more so. If there's an issue, it's more the than the 18th-centuryness. You'd want to spend a fair amount of time on "What do Valmont and Merteuil really mean when they say that?"
I don't know whether Cry the Beloved Country has the reputation that it once did. I also read Camus's The Plague for a class in high school, though I can't say I "got" the symbolism attached to it.