Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.

'Underneath'


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."


Consuela - May 25, 2011 5:43:33 pm PDT #14929 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I figure they're just glad she's not dating an evil disembodied brain.

Heh. Good point.


Kat - May 25, 2011 6:28:36 pm PDT #14930 of 28287
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sox, get Hundred Dresses. I love that book. Also Junie B. Jones is awesome.


Steph L. - May 25, 2011 7:20:36 pm PDT #14931 of 28287
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm rereading "A House Like a Lotus."

I love that one. I had to buy a new copy last year because the old one fell apart from excessive use.


hippocampus - May 26, 2011 1:13:53 am PDT #14932 of 28287
not your mom's socks.

On the list (the good list, not The List), Kat!


Consuela - May 26, 2011 11:28:28 am PDT #14933 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, this is awesome: Ta-Nehisi Coates discovers Moby Dick.

Melville eats Klingons like part of a complete breakfast!!

Melville! Melville! Melville!!!!

Do not come to me with your drab and sorry works which I have not read. Melville desecrates their temples, steals their horses, and howls among the lamentation!

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flea - May 26, 2011 1:21:49 pm PDT #14934 of 28287
information libertarian

Hee! I am still not done with Moby Dick (maybe on the trip to Ireland!) but I love it. It's so FUNNY. Nobody ever told me Moby Dick was funny.


flea - May 26, 2011 1:25:33 pm PDT #14935 of 28287
information libertarian

Kind of relatedly, what Irish Literature available for free (i.e. pre-1923) should I download for the Kindle for Ireland? I have read: Castle Rackrent (meh), some Synge (ugh), a lot of Yeats (yum!), Portrait of the Artist and Dubliners (yum!), and Gulliver's Travels (fine). Do not ask me to read Ulysses; this is a pleasure trip.


Ginger - May 26, 2011 1:27:31 pm PDT #14936 of 28287
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

That's the way I feel about the first paragraph of Moby Dick.

If you finish it on the way to Dublin, flea, you should also read some of Ray Bradbury on living in Dublin to write the script for the movie.


DavidS - May 26, 2011 1:29:09 pm PDT #14937 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Kind of relatedly, what Irish Literature available for free (i.e. pre-1923) should I download for the Kindle for Ireland?

I love love love Flann O'Brien. At Swim Two Birds, or The Third Policeman. I think he's the funniest writer ever.


Consuela - May 26, 2011 1:30:09 pm PDT #14938 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I love the first paragraph of Moby Dick too. Pity my love could not withstand the endless "non-fiction" chapters in which we learn that whales are fish, and so forth.

I should try to read it again, some time.