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
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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."
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."
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?
Consuela - May 31, 2011 3:25:26 pm PDT #14981 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I guess we have to assume that they managed to grab them off the ground? Don't they lose their wands because Umbridge has taken them? So maybe she dropped them when the centaurs carried her off.
The hazard of reading via audiobook: I have no way of easily checking such facts.
Consuela - May 31, 2011 3:28:27 pm PDT #14982 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Speaking of HP, I'm about halfway through Half-Blood Prince and (a) finding Harry quite annoying in that he's really quite obsessed with Malfoy and it's clear he's right and I rather wish he weren't; (b) wishing JKR had done better by Lavender Brown.
Also, why does JKR insist on using full names for so many students? It's not just Dean and Seamus, it's always "Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnegan", even though we've met them in every single book since the first. Katie the Quidditch player is always Katie Bell, along with Angelina Johnson and Oliver Wood and Ernie MacMillan. Why so completist? It comes across kind of OCD, and a bit patronizing, as if the reader can't be expected to remember anyone's names.
Hil R. - May 31, 2011 4:18:44 pm PDT #14983 of 28289
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I guess we have to assume that they managed to grab them off the ground? Don't they lose their wands because Umbridge has taken them? So maybe she dropped them when the centaurs carried her off.
After the centaurs are gone, Harry and Hermione are trying to figure out what to do next, and Hermione says, "Well, we can't do anything without wands." Then the wands aren't mentioned again, as far as I can tell, until they get to the Ministry and they take their wands out of their pockets.
Consuela - May 31, 2011 5:02:01 pm PDT #14984 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Woops! Well, that would be a bit of a flub, then. Huh.
Hayden - May 31, 2011 5:37:40 pm PDT #14985 of 28289
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'll check out your friend's book, Scrappy!
I'm towards the end of reading Prisoner of Azkhaban to my son. Snape really is a monster in this book.
Polter-Cow - May 31, 2011 6:41:28 pm PDT #14986 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm about halfway through, and yeah, he's really, really awful. I mean, he's just been generally terrible so far, and for no discernible reason.
One thing that's fun is that I've forgotten what actually happened the day Sirius supposedly killed thirteen people and laughed about it. I remember a little, but not the whole story, so I look forward to finding out again! Also looking forward to the Scabbers reveal, which is one of my favorite plot twists of all time.