Oh, I'll definitely double-down about how funny Moby-Dick is. I live my life by the loose-fish vs. fast-fish rule.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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 28718
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Kat - May 26, 2011 6:10:31 pm PDT #14950 of 28718
"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 28718
"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 28718
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 28718
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 28718
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Roddy Doyle?
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:57:27 am PDT #14955 of 28718
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that's him.
Jessica - May 27, 2011 5:58:28 am PDT #14956 of 28718
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 28718
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 28718
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.