Yep, that one. It's better than a lot of the free/cheap stuff on amazon! The formatting came out a bit weird but it's reminding me a bit of the fake news article about the books being about Hermoine--I am quite enjoying something from her viewpoint. I haven't read much potterfic in years.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'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."
meara - Aug 16, 2011 7:32:08 pm PDT #16085 of 28289
Consuela - Aug 16, 2011 7:44:53 pm PDT #16086 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
How did you get it in one file?
meara - Aug 16, 2011 7:46:39 pm PDT #16087 of 28289
Downloaded a program designed to get things off FFN actually--I read the first couple chapters online and then realized how long it is...ice been reading it for hours (and I read fast--usually finish a book in an hour or two) and I'm only 30% done.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2011 7:23:31 am PDT #16088 of 28289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So I spent my vacation mainlining George RR Martin and was finally able to start ADWD when I got back without being totally lost. AFFC definitely improves on reread (mainly because this time I wasn't skimming through all the Iron Islands chapters going "YOU'RE BORING WHERE THE FUCK ARE TYRION AND DAENERYS???") but man, it's good to be back with the Northern characters again. I'm remarkably unspoiled too, which is surprising since I did read all the whitefont in this thread when it first came out.
Liese S. - Aug 17, 2011 12:55:05 pm PDT #16089 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha, your character preferences are my character preferences! I bought adwd while on the road but didn't make much progress with the busy nature of my summers. But I have a week or two now, so I expect to blaze through pretty quick now that I'm home.
Amy - Aug 17, 2011 2:28:38 pm PDT #16090 of 28289
Because books.
"YOU'RE BORING WHERE THE FUCK ARE TYRION AND DAENERYS???"
This is pretty much me, if you add Jon Snow, and I'm only on A Clash of Kings. I do like Davos Seaworth so far, though. Crap, I hope I got that name right.
sumi - Aug 18, 2011 9:16:53 am PDT #16091 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
Have you guys heard of Booklamp? It's supposed to be like Pandora, only for books.
(Davos Seaworth is right. I like him too.)
Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2011 9:19:18 am PDT #16092 of 28289
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Would You Please Fucking Stop? by Ursula K. Le Guin
DavidS - Aug 18, 2011 9:37:24 am PDT #16093 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh.
Soldiers and sailors have always cursed, what else can they do? But Norman Mailer in The Naked and the Dead was forced to use the euphemistic invention “fugging,” giving Dorothy Parker the chance, which naturally she didn’t miss, of cooing at him, “Oh, are you the young man who doesn’t know how to spell ‘fuck?’”
Strix - Aug 18, 2011 9:46:32 am PDT #16094 of 28289
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Interesting piece. I like a good, soulful swear session, and enjoy creating a long, drawn out invective, but sometimes you just need to shouting "Fucking FUCK!" at the top of your lungs.
As a teacher, i told my students they could say anything they wanted in my class, curse-word wise...as soon as they turned in a paper detailing the etymology of the word(s) they wished to use, and a list of 10 alternates to the word.
No one ever did it, and I continued to tell students that certain words were not allowed, unless they fulfilled the requirement.
Although I DID have a female student who went on a 5 minutes, profanity-filled diatribe full of insightful character analysis about a character in "The Poisonwood Bible" which, curse words or no, was one of the most thoughtful pieces of student analysis I'd ever heard, and I said nary a word to her.
She got a standing O from the class. It was...fucking awesome.