Oh, I'll definitely double-down about how funny Moby-Dick is. I live my life by the loose-fish vs. fast-fish rule.
Willow: Yes. Hi. You must be Angel's handsome, yet androgynous, son. Connor: It's Connor. Willow: And the sneer's genetic. Who knew?
'A Hole in the World'
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."
Hayden - May 26, 2011 5:06:56 pm PDT #14949 of 28288
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
Jessica - May 27, 2011 5:58:28 am PDT #14956 of 28288
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Count me as another Catalog of Whales fan.
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 was almost finished 6 years ago. "Almost" being, it seems, an entirely subjective term.
-t - May 27, 2011 6:13:49 am PDT #14957 of 28288
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Snapper is the other movie in the trilogy, iirc.
sumi - May 27, 2011 6:29:37 am PDT #14958 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
George R.R. Marting had alot of book 6 years ago but then he or the publisher decided it should be two books which meant, not just cutting off his writing where he was at but a bunch or rearranging and rewriting and addition of chapters. He talks about the process here - if you're interested.
ETA: I should say that there is information about what POV characters are in ADWD and which ones are not.