Is there a Classics comic book version?
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
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."
Ginger - Jan 04, 2012 11:12:43 am PST #17300 of 28279
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:21:17 am PST #17301 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Or wait, nevermind, that was for Lolita.
By the way, this is for my 2012 Readers' Choice challenge.
The final list is:
Crime and Punishment
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Lolita
(Vladimir Nabokov)
Midnight’s Children
(Salman Rushdie)
The Master and Margarita
(Mikhail Bulgakov)
Middlemarch
(George Eliot)
Never Let Me Go
(Kazuo Ishiguro)
Oryx and Crake
(Margaret Atwood)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
(John Irving)
The Sense of an Ending
(Julian Barnes)
The Thirteenth Tale
(Diane Setterfield)
To The Lighthouse
(Virginia Woolf)
War and Peace
(Leo Tolstoy)
lisah - Jan 04, 2012 11:23:34 am PST #17302 of 28279
Punishingly Intricate
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Oh yay! I saw this on your list but wasn't on a device I could type easily enough on to make a compelling argument for you to read it. I love that book!
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:36:09 am PST #17303 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's about tequila, right?
sj - Jan 04, 2012 11:36:54 am PST #17304 of 28279
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Yay! That list looks excellent. Good luck with it.
Kate P. - Jan 04, 2012 11:40:58 am PST #17305 of 28279
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Good-looking list, megan! I'm reading The Sense of an Ending right now and it's marvelous (and so quick!).
Consuela - Jan 04, 2012 11:41:02 am PST #17306 of 28279
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's about tequila, right
hah! It's a modernist fantasy; the Devil is a character, IIRC.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:45:45 am PST #17307 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
By the way, I'm looking into starting a discussion group on Goodreads for the people that want to read along for all or part of the challenge. I was going to use Facebook, but then I realized Goodreads makes far more sense since you can have threaded discussions, link to books, polls, etc.
First up is the Woolf, but I'm not getting it from the library until this weekend.
Ginger - Jan 04, 2012 11:50:29 am PST #17308 of 28279
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I should have made an argument for Dorothy Sayers; Lord Peter and Harriet Vane would have been a rest in the midst of these.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:53:30 am PST #17309 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, I read 60 books last year. These won't be all I read for sure, but I wanted to be responsible to someone else for some of the more difficult ones. My secret goal is of course to read all 25.
But I know myself and I'll get distracted from the project and read other stuff. And I'll still have my book salon books since these don't necessarily coordinate in any way.