Well, I get these dangerous email alerts from Amazon. . . $.99 here, $1.99 there . . .
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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."
sumi - Jan 31, 2012 6:59:20 am PST #17721 of 28261
Art Crawl!!!
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2012 8:01:21 am PST #17722 of 28261
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sumi, I signed up for those e-mails last night, because I remembered you said you got an e-mail alert from Amazon with the daily deal.
sumi - Jan 31, 2012 11:40:30 am PST #17723 of 28261
Art Crawl!!!
I swear I found out about those emails from somebody here!
In the UK, Harper Collins Voyager is publishing an enhanced e-book of A Game of Thrones.
There is a video showing some of the enhancements at the link.
sumi - Feb 01, 2012 6:57:26 am PST #17724 of 28261
Art Crawl!!!
BTW, a friend in the UK who is also a GRRM fan is going to investigate the interactive GoT and report back.
ION - check out this list of beautiful bookstores.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2012 10:42:57 am PST #17725 of 28261
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Free ebook anthology from Tor. I'll be picking up a Nook copy on the 14th.
Polter-Cow - Feb 01, 2012 10:46:44 am PST #17726 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ooh, thanks! That sounds good and free, the kind of thing that's nice to have on my Kindle when I just want something short to read.
Consuela - Feb 03, 2012 8:44:06 am PST #17727 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DavidS - Feb 04, 2012 9:37:12 am PST #17728 of 28261
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm writing about Joris Karl Huysmans for HiLobrow. He's a French writer most famous for A Rebours (Against the Grain) which is generally considered to be the ultimate decadent/aesthete novel. It was Oscar Wilde's favorite and the book which is the "wicked French book" which leads Dorian Gray into his life of debauchery.
Anyway, it's a really interesting read, but it's making me laugh too because it has sentences which would work equally well as Smiths lyrics, or Edward Gorey captions:
His childhood had been beset with perils. Threatened with scrofulous affections, worn out with persistent attacks of fever, he had nevertheless successfully weathered the breakers of puberty, after which critical period his nerves had recovered the mastery, vanquished the languors and depressions of chlorosis and permitted the constitution to reach its full and complete development. The mother, a tall, silent, white-faced woman, died of general debility; then the father succumbed to a vague and mysterious malady.
She died of general debility! He succumbed to a vague and mysterious malady! He vanquished the languors!
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 04, 2012 9:45:23 am PST #17729 of 28261
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, I have that book, though it was sufficiently meandering that I never made it all the way through.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2012 9:56:02 am PST #17730 of 28261
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
though it was sufficiently meandering that I never made it all the way through.
It does warn you up front: "a novel without a plot."