Buffistas

We're still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and becoming somebody's bitch.

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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."

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Laga - Apr 10, 2011 8:05:27 am PDT #14325 of 28289

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I hate that plunge in my stomach when I find out someone I've just grown to love was already dead before I heard of them.

our rats are low

oh ffs, suicide?! Damn I wished I'd finished Infinite Jest before I found this out (I know, fat chance. With the book on my radar now there's no way). Now I'm going in to this with the same attitude that made me hate Confederacy of Dunces. I think I have to switch to Julie & Julia for a while. Shit, now I'm crying. bastard.

DavidS - Apr 10, 2011 8:38:16 am PDT #14326 of 28289

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dear Laga: Stay away from Hemingway and Sylvia Plath.

Laga - Apr 10, 2011 8:40:24 am PDT #14327 of 28289

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I haven't cracked Plath outside of school but I devoured Hemingway. I was never angry at him because he had a terminal illness and I think he had the right to choose his passing.

Is depression a terminal illness?

Sue - Apr 10, 2011 8:46:50 am PDT #14328 of 28289

hip deep in pie

I wished I finished Infinite Jest when I started it, years ago. I tried to read it again a couple of years ago but I found the whole thing coloured by Wallace's suicide.

Consuela - Apr 10, 2011 8:48:15 am PDT #14329 of 28289

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm going to see a staged reading of something from Pale King next week in San Francisco. As the only bit of DFW I've read is "Consider the Lobster", I expect to be completely out of my depth.

Laga - Apr 10, 2011 8:49:03 am PDT #14330 of 28289

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I wished I finished Infinite Jest when I started it, years ago.

If you want to try picking it up again, I'll probably be ready in a few days.

Tom Scola - Apr 10, 2011 8:59:54 am PDT #14331 of 28289

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I brought Infinite Jest Along with me in 1997 on my trip to New Zealand, for the long plane ride. I ended up hauling the huge book with me the whole time. I can’t claim I understood all of it, and I skimmed a couple of really difficult chapters, but I finished it, and I really enjoyed it, and was mostly in awe of the writing.

Liese S. - Apr 10, 2011 9:01:20 am PDT #14332 of 28289

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I have to pop in to say that I'm reading Dracula and the Twilight series at the same time, a state which is pretty baffling to my little brane. Hee.

Laga - Apr 10, 2011 9:02:32 am PDT #14333 of 28289

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Maybe Dracula will eat Bella.

sumi - Apr 10, 2011 9:12:27 am PDT #14334 of 28289

Art Crawl!!!

Maybe.

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