So that's what he's throwing!
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Sue - Feb 17, 2011 4:03:25 am PST #13943 of 28282
hip deep in pie
Toddson - Feb 17, 2011 5:53:15 am PST #13944 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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 ....
Sue - Feb 17, 2011 6:13:45 am PST #13945 of 28282
hip deep in pie
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.
Consuela - Feb 17, 2011 7:44:19 am PST #13946 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I saw it the other day at B&N, it was on the New Releases table and looked great! Yay Erinaceous!
Ginger - Feb 19, 2011 12:42:45 pm PST #13947 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Family Maid Files Suit Against Author of ‘The Help’ [link]
Sue - Feb 19, 2011 2:36:10 pm PST #13948 of 28282
hip deep in pie
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.
erikaj - Feb 19, 2011 5:45:07 pm PST #13949 of 28282
Always Anti-fascist!
In that context, comparing fandom to drugs does seem sadder than it used to. Not half as sad as my reading it to impress my guy friend and try to get laid. Like dicks like a strong essay section or something, my god. And after all that, I'm not sure I have ever gotten the capital-P Point of that book either(some smaller ones, but of course not my friend's either) Against my will, I believe I was influenced by Marcia Brady impressing a boy because she learned all about bugs. Never mind, I hate that show and Marcia in particular, but if you see that shit young enough, I guess it makes its mark.
Connie Neil - Feb 20, 2011 5:46:49 pm PST #13950 of 28282
brillig
What are people's favorite sites for free books? I have a Nook to fill! I'm familiar with Gutenberg and manybooks.net. What other wonderful resources are out there?
DavidS - Feb 20, 2011 5:53:25 pm PST #13951 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What other wonderful resources are out there?
The Internet Archive is a good clearing house of many things.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2011 11:08:31 pm PST #13952 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.