sumi, that link gives me a 403.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'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."
Steph L. - Jul 09, 2011 10:28:30 am PDT #15634 of 28297
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Amy - Jul 09, 2011 10:36:19 am PDT #15635 of 28297
Because books.
Here's another link about that: [link]
sumi - Jul 09, 2011 2:36:01 pm PDT #15636 of 28297
Art Crawl!!!
Nathan Fillion is reading A Game of Thrones:
RT @nathanfillion: Ahhh. The beach, the sun, & Game of Thrones on Kindle. Alan Tudyk would love this. If he could read. >[link]
-t - Jul 09, 2011 2:56:52 pm PDT #15637 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Speaking of, sumi, I just read the bit in Feast for Crows where Cersei mentions Littlefinger asking for the tapestries - they must be important somehow. As I recall, they were taken down quickly after Robert died, maybe Petyr arranged for something to be wrapped in them so he could retrieve it without anyone knowing? Or maybe the tapestries themselves are important somehow, though I can't some up with a reason. I'm not sure what Petyr is after - Riverrun would make sense but I have a feeling he is thinking bigger than that. His twisty plots are beyond me.
Just a couple more days and I will have all new questions and befuddlements.
sumi - Jul 09, 2011 3:03:29 pm PDT #15638 of 28297
Art Crawl!!!
I know. I don't know whether to think that there is really something there or if it's just the sort of thing we come up with when it's been too long between books.
I mean, they were described as old hunting scenes so it seems unlikely that the tapestries themselves were intrinsically important.
-t - Jul 09, 2011 3:12:20 pm PDT #15639 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Could be some kind of arcane knowledge that we don't even know would be useful, encoded in the pictures all Da Vinci Code style. We could be reading too much into it, but Littlefinger is not a guy who does things for no reason...
Frankenbuddha - Jul 09, 2011 6:47:12 pm PDT #15640 of 28297
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
RT @nathanfillion: Ahhh. The beach, the sun, & Game of Thrones on Kindle. Alan Tudyk would love this. If he could read.
Now I'm not sure if I want Tudyk to turn up on Castle as an illiterate or a smarty-pants. But turn up he should.
t /offtopic
Kat - Jul 09, 2011 9:12:41 pm PDT #15641 of 28297
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just started (and finished) The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Okay folks, especially you dystopian types, thoughts?
megan walker - Jul 09, 2011 9:20:16 pm PDT #15642 of 28297
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's bleak for sure, but there's no overarching power structure that would lead me to call it dystopic. To me, it's more of a love story than anything; in that sense, I found it beautiful.
Kat - Jul 09, 2011 9:32:28 pm PDT #15643 of 28297
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Megan, you are absolutely right; dystopic is wrong. Post apocalpytic is more accurate. It's definitely a love story. I think it has the most beautiful vision of a father-son relationship. And definitely a parable. But, good lord, grim!
It reminds me of Winter's Bone which I read with similar speed and it left me thinking.
The relationship between father and son is breathtakingly beautiful. When McCarthy writes, "He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: if he is not the word of God God never spoke" he is touching on that idea that for a parent, a child is a form of authorization of existence. But there is also the idea of warrant in the Chaucerian sense of someone who is obligated to provide protection. Here the child offers a form of protection, of motivation to live, for the father as well as being a token or a guarantee.
The writing is so spare and yet every detail is really powerful. So many images that I do not want to sit with me.