Also, I can kill you with my brain.

River ,'Trash'


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."


Tom Scola - Apr 07, 2011 6:36:19 am PDT #14312 of 28290
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If I recall correctly, the endnotes of the endnotes have endnotes.


Laga - Apr 07, 2011 6:38:28 am PDT #14313 of 28290
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

gnargh


Frankenbuddha - Apr 07, 2011 7:47:59 am PDT #14314 of 28290
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Plus if you hold your copy up to a mirror you can read an entirely different novel!


Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2011 1:21:35 pm PDT #14315 of 28290
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

gnargh

Have you read House of Leaves ? The footnotes have an appendix that has footnotes.


le nubian - Apr 07, 2011 1:46:06 pm PDT #14316 of 28290
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Why would footnotes need footnotes?


Cass - Apr 07, 2011 2:27:02 pm PDT #14317 of 28290
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

footnote fetish?


Laga - Apr 07, 2011 3:01:53 pm PDT #14318 of 28290
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Clearly all the other books I've been reading are footnote deficient.


Sheryl - Apr 07, 2011 3:54:34 pm PDT #14319 of 28290
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

I think the Discworld books are as footnote-heavy as I want to get.


DavidS - Apr 07, 2011 4:30:33 pm PDT #14320 of 28290
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Clearly all the other books I've been reading are footnote deficient.

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov, get on it.


Laga - Apr 08, 2011 12:57:40 pm PDT #14321 of 28290
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

While I am loving reliving The Book Thief through Mark's eyes, the fact that he hasn't posted a review on Infinite Jest past page 49 is making it much easier for me to pick it up, get halfway through the same paragraph I did last time, and put it right back down again.

edit: I am over the hump, double-endnote-deflowered. I hope this book doesn't end up being beyond Mark's skills as a reviewer because I'm really interested in his take on it.

At this point I'm pretty sure Hal filmed something that the cultural attache is watching and this will end up being something the plot hinges on. Don't tell me if I'm right.