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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."

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Ginger - Oct 10, 2011 4:27:42 pm PDT #16581 of 28333

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Go West, Young Man! (books about the frontier)

As Dana says, definitely Willa Cather.

Little House books

Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy and The Light in the Forest

Last of the Mohicans (Much better than Mark Twain says)

Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi

Hamlin Garland's short stories in Main-Travelled Roads

The Virginian, Owen Wister

Shane, Jack Schaefer

Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey

The Octopus, Frank Norris (depressing, but not as depressing as his McTeague, one of the most depressing novels of all time)

Bret Harte's short stories

The Call of the Wild, White Fang Jack London

The seminal essay on the role of the frontier is Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier In American History," which is the first chapter of his book i The Frontier in American History, which is widely available online. Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth is very readable.

Hil R. - Oct 10, 2011 4:33:35 pm PDT #16582 of 28333

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

True Grit for the frontier books.

Steph L. - Oct 10, 2011 4:43:58 pm PDT #16583 of 28333

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

How many books are there supposed to be?

I thought 7, but I keep hearing 9, which makes me wonder how he can keep it going without dragging things out.

dcp - Oct 10, 2011 4:49:10 pm PDT #16584 of 28333

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Better than True Grit: Douglas C. Jones's Winding Stair and The Search for Temperance Moon.

megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 7:12:09 pm PDT #16585 of 28333

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Shane, come back, Shane!

megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 7:26:16 pm PDT #16586 of 28333

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

In short, thanks for the many frontier suggestions! It's something that I came up with in Wyoming and really want to do (so I want a really tempting list).

No art theme ideas? Or are you all only wild about the Wild West?

Dana - Oct 10, 2011 7:32:07 pm PDT #16587 of 28333

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I admit to only having seen the movie, but "The Girl With the Pearl Earring"?

Dana - Oct 10, 2011 7:35:09 pm PDT #16588 of 28333

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Also, "The Agony and the Ecstasy" is apparently a book as well. I did not know this.

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-t - Oct 10, 2011 7:35:18 pm PDT #16589 of 28333

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I read it and liked it. Eta: Girl With a Pearl Earring, that is.

Blue Beard by Vonnegut springs to mind.

meara - Oct 10, 2011 7:40:31 pm PDT #16590 of 28333

My roommate recommended this book, "As Above So Below" about Pieter Bruegel

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