I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


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."


Hil R. - May 30, 2011 5:17:53 pm PDT #14971 of 28289
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Remus gives it back to him at the end of the book.

That's at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban. But then Moody/Crouch takes it in Goblet of Fire.


Aims - May 30, 2011 5:21:11 pm PDT #14972 of 28289
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Rowling said/says that Harry just went back and got it, she just never showed him doing that.


Kate P. - May 30, 2011 5:30:38 pm PDT #14973 of 28289
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

flea, I didn't know you'd read Flann O'Brien -- we should have talked books when we met up on Sunday! I'm reading The Third Policeman right now, AIFG. Also weird. That book gets very weird very quickly. But all the stuff about de Selby is hilarious.


Atropa - May 30, 2011 6:30:19 pm PDT #14974 of 28289
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Things I Should Not Do: search "Dracula" on eBay in the Collectible Books section. There's a signed first edition of Dracula up. With a buy it now of $75k.


DavidS - May 30, 2011 6:31:26 pm PDT #14975 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dear Jilli: You don't have $75k.

Save your money for that first edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes.


Atropa - May 30, 2011 6:50:15 pm PDT #14976 of 28289
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Signed! Bram Stoker!

Save your money for that first edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Well, yeah. Which is currently on eBay for $750, which I don't have, either: [link]


DavidS - May 30, 2011 7:04:21 pm PDT #14977 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Signed! Bram Stoker!

"Everybody thinks Beethoven Bram Stoker is so great. If he's so great how come he was never on a bubblegum card, huh?" - Lucy Van Pelt


Hayden - May 30, 2011 7:41:53 pm PDT #14978 of 28289
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I have much love for The Third Policeman and At Swim-2-Birds, too.


Scrappy - May 31, 2011 7:58:39 am PDT #14979 of 28289
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Hayden (and other Buffistas)-- I want to pimp my friend Kevin's book--The Brothers' Lot. [link] It is really, REALLY good--and has a voice a bit reminiscent of Flann O'Brien. Funny, smart, satirical, impassioned and a beautiful use of language.


Hil R. - May 31, 2011 2:51:46 pm PDT #14980 of 28289
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

At the end of Order of the Phoenix, Harry and Hermione both lose their wands in the forest with the centaurs. Then they have them again when they get to the Ministry. Am I missing something, or does the book not say how they got their wands back?