have we seen this yet? [link]
The Steampunk Scholar teaches Soulless to college students.
Out. For. A. Walk. ... Bitch.
Spike ,'Selfless'
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."
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."
Aims - Feb 05, 2012 9:09:30 am PST #17731 of 28261
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok. Watching Joe read "The Hunger Games" series is HIGHLARIOUS. Like Mark Reads but in 3D.
Toddson - Feb 06, 2012 9:45:03 am PST #17732 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
With on-the-spot snarking.
megan walker - Feb 06, 2012 1:01:26 pm PST #17733 of 28261
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
For those interested, the most recent episode of The Readers podcast (which is awesome in general) is on Victorian Lit. The beginning of the interview with Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist, has some echoing issues but they get resolved eventually.
Aims - Feb 06, 2012 3:59:08 pm PST #17734 of 28261
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So ... last night Joe and are in bed reading (he's on Catching Fire ), and Joe is chewing his nicotine gum. Now, Joe's TMJ makes his chewing very loud. Suddenly, a hush fell over the room - he had stopped chewing. And then there was a loud, "What? WHAT? That is BULLshit!"
And it was then that I knew it had gotten real.
P.M. Marc - Feb 07, 2012 7:27:33 am PST #17735 of 28261
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
AHAHAHAHAHA! Man, you should be recording it.
I would SO buy tickets to Joe Reads The Hunger Games.
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 7:35:54 am PST #17736 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I would SO buy tickets to Joe Reads The Hunger Games.
Me, too! Joe would be way snarkier and more entertaining than Mark.