Dear Laga: Stay away from Hemingway and Sylvia Plath.
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
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."
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."
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.
Barb - Apr 10, 2011 9:21:51 am PDT #14335 of 28289
“Not dead yet!”
Maybe Dracula will eat Bella.
One can but hope.
Also, anyone who enjoys Hemingway or knowing of him, should pick up THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McClain. It's a novel told from the POV of Hadley Richardson, Hemingway's first wife and chronicles their lives from their first meeting until their divorce. Beautiful story.