Ooh, thanks for the tip, bennett! I already have the non-anniversary edition, so two bucks isn't bad for the re-buy.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2012 7:23:16 am PST #17514 of 28332
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
bennett - Jan 19, 2012 7:27:19 am PST #17515 of 28332
I didn't know you could ahem e-books - a sign of how out of it I am these days. From the usual suspects or e-book only places?
DebetEsse - Jan 19, 2012 7:30:03 am PST #17516 of 28332
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ok, you all did so well with the "death and grieving" suggestions, any ideas for a non-fiction "book about a person with a disability"?
sumi - Jan 19, 2012 7:37:06 am PST #17517 of 28332
Art Crawl!!!
Anne Rice has a werewolf book coming out next month.
Scrappy - Jan 19, 2012 7:56:44 am PST #17518 of 28332
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The juxtaposition of the two posts above mine made me laugh and laugh.
erikaj - Jan 19, 2012 7:57:33 am PST #17519 of 28332
Always Anti-fascist!
"Moving Violations" by John Hockenberry is good. Exciting, since he went places most paraplegics can't. John Callahan's "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot"
Steph L. - Jan 19, 2012 8:08:41 am PST #17520 of 28332
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The juxtaposition of the two posts above mine made me laugh and laugh.
Me, too. I honestly thought for a minute that sumi's post was a direct response.
Relatedly, I am going to have to buy American Gods for the BatKindle, because my paperback went walkabout many, many months ago.
meara - Jan 19, 2012 8:11:30 am PST #17521 of 28332
I didn't know you could ahem e-books - a sign of how out of it I am these days. From the usual suspects or e-book only places?
I was mostly getting them from friends (and for the most part things that I already had, or that I wouldn't otherwise buy--which is why I was ALSO spending too much at Amazon, and because it was soooo easy!). But I am pretty sure you can get them the usual places...but I have also never ahemed a TV show or movie, and haven't downloaded music illegally since Napster was big (iTunes is easy enough and legal enough and cheap enough that I don't feel any need) so I don't know the exact processes!
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2012 8:15:35 am PST #17522 of 28332
brillig
I try not to ahem anything from living authors. For somewhat-aheming of old stuff, the Australian version of Gutenberg has different public domain rules than the American version, but they are naturally geared towards the Australian audience.
JZ - Jan 19, 2012 9:18:07 am PST #17523 of 28332
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seconding erika's vote for Callahan's autobiography. That is some bitterly funny shit.
Waist-High In The World, by Nancy Mairs, is also very good -- she's an extremely eloquent essayist who has lived with rapidly progressive MS that confined her to a wheelchair as a relatively young adult, and severe clinical depression all her life. The jolliest line in Waist-High is about 9000% less fun than the bitterest line in Callahan's book, but it's still very very good. She's just such a gifted, poetic and relentlessly, grindingly honest writer.