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.
You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
Steph L. - May 25, 2011 7:20:36 pm PDT #14931 of 28288
I look more rad than Lutheranism
hippocampus - May 26, 2011 1:13:53 am PDT #14932 of 28288
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 28288
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!
flea - May 26, 2011 1:21:49 pm PDT #14934 of 28288
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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 28288
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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 28288
"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 28288
"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 28288
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.
flea - May 26, 2011 1:36:21 pm PDT #14939 of 28288
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The endless non-fiction whale chapters are actually very funny. You have to imagine Ishmael saying everything in such a dry droll way that you're almost, but not quite, certain he is kidding.
I have read Flann O'Brien! I wrote a kick-ass paper on The Third Policeman, though I think we did not read At Swim Two Birds.
Polter-Cow - May 26, 2011 1:40:07 pm PDT #14940 of 28288
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The endless non-fiction whale chapters are actually very funny. You have to imagine Ishmael saying everything in such a dry droll way that you're almost, but not quite, certain he is kidding.
They were my favorite part of the book! Maybe that's why.