Xander ,'First Date'
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."
Is everybody aware of the many resources available at Archive.org?
Among other things, they have free audiobooks by volunteer readers.
There's a rating system too so you can find the best readers of Persuasion or The Princess and the Goblin.
You can stream it or download it.
Oh, it's the Librivox audio. Yeah, the readers there are a real crapshoot: I've only found a couple I really liked.
oooh, I do like the streaming function, that's new: you can sample the reader before you go to the trouble of downloading.
The Great Gatsby video game for NES: [link]
Nick Carraway has to fight flappers! And waiters! And hobos! And crabs! BY THROWING HIS HAT AT THEM.
This is 100% awesome.
My old editor at Nerve made that game.
So that's what he's throwing!
Well, I was in a bookstore yesterday and saw a little gem called The Secret Life of Dresses ... wonder where I've seen that before ....
I was in Costco the other day with some friends and one picked it up. And I stated yelling in the middle of Costco, "OH MY GOD!!! I KNOW THAT BOOK! I KNOW HER!!!"
Somehow seeing it in Costco made it very exciting.
I saw it the other day at B&N, it was on the New Releases table and looked great! Yay Erinaceous!
Family Maid Files Suit Against Author of ‘The Help’ [link]
BBC documentary on David Foster Wallace [link]
I tried to read Infinite Jest again last summer, but it was so coloured by his death I found it too sad. I wish I had gotten further into it when I was younger and more callow and callous.