Flea, all the Oscar Wilde stuff should amuse you.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
javachik - May 26, 2011 3:20:09 pm PDT #14946 of 28288
Our wings are not tired.
Laga - May 26, 2011 3:21:47 pm PDT #14947 of 28288
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Pity my love could not withstand the endless "non-fiction" chapters in which we learn that whales are fish, and so forth.
I love that part! People will tell you they're mammals, but I've seen a lot of mammals and these are fish. You can tell by the fins.
hippocampus - May 26, 2011 3:23:35 pm PDT #14948 of 28288
not your mom's socks.
Seconding Wilde and Heaney. Listen to some Yeats if you can find it. And some of the myths.
Hayden - May 26, 2011 5:06:56 pm PDT #14949 of 28288
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh, I'll definitely double-down about how funny Moby-Dick is. I live my life by the loose-fish vs. fast-fish rule.
Kat - May 26, 2011 6:10:31 pm PDT #14950 of 28288
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Heaney for sure.
If you want something mildly contemporary and Ireland-related, I loved Leon Uris's Trinity. I read it instead of cramming for finals my first year of college.
Rayne - May 26, 2011 10:07:35 pm PDT #14951 of 28288
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I just finished A Feast for Crows and now I'm sitting here wondering why it took 6 years to release the next book when it sounds like it was already written 6 years ago. It doesn't exactly fill me with faith that this is a well planned out series.
Ugh, I hate reading unfinished series! (But damn, what an addicting series it is!)
Toddson - May 27, 2011 5:18:01 am PDT #14952 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Although it's probably not good for my sanity to argue with a dead guy about Darwin.
You prefer arguing with live people about Darwin? at least Melville won't answer back.
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:49:26 am PDT #14953 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Irish writers -- what's the name of the guy who wrote The Commitments? He wrote a trilogy of books about the same family, starting with that one and including The Van and another book, all of them made into films with Colin Meany.
Jesse - May 27, 2011 5:53:22 am PDT #14954 of 28288
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Roddy Doyle?
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:57:27 am PDT #14955 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that's him.