Buffistas

I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.

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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."

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Strix - May 09, 2012 7:21:29 am PDT #18623 of 28298

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I didn't even know where to start on the "we are all doomed because people are reading The Hunger Games instead of Plato in the original Greek" crowd.

Pish and tosh. I read The Satyricon in Latin and it's basically 50 Shades of Grey from the Roman era. Does this make me a better person? Bullshit.

Ivory tower types who sneer at genre lit are one of the reasons I didn't pursue a Ph.D in Lit. Besides the fact that the market for English profs sucks ass, and I'd probably have to move to Nome to get a uni job.

Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2012 8:05:29 am PDT #18624 of 28298

"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

As much as I snark about Twilight, the bottom line is that ANYTHING that fosters a love of reading in the public is of the good. Far better that they be reading lowbrow literature for entertainment and thereby putting their imaginations to work rather than playing video games or sitting mesmerized by the TV.

Calli - May 09, 2012 10:00:43 am PDT #18625 of 28298

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Fish is an overpaid dolt, and my English profs at UNC use to delight in mocking his pretentious ass.

Strix - May 09, 2012 10:11:05 am PDT #18626 of 28298

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Word, Matt...

Consuela - May 09, 2012 1:24:05 pm PDT #18627 of 28298

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So Outside Magazine fielded a team in the Quidditch World Cup: [link]

Pretty entertaining.

Kat - May 09, 2012 4:31:40 pm PDT #18628 of 28298

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Calli, I really liked Fish's article. My students have difficulty learning the difference between analysis and summary. What is cool in that piece is how much he touches on without really summarizing the plot at all. A great sample for those who are beginning literary analysis.

Amy - May 09, 2012 4:48:34 pm PDT #18629 of 28298

Because books.

I liked what he had to say, too. I hadn't seriously thought about authenticity as a theme, but it really makes sense.

Kat - May 09, 2012 5:18:40 pm PDT #18630 of 28298

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Has anyone read Night Circus by Erin Moregenstern? Loving it. Also the follow up to Wolf Hall was released and I cannot WAIT to start it.

Amy - May 09, 2012 5:19:42 pm PDT #18631 of 28298

Because books.

Jilli loved it, I know, and I just started it (again -- I had once and then got distracted by something). I still need to read Wolf Hall -- S. loved it, and I miss The Tudors.

Kat - May 09, 2012 5:22:24 pm PDT #18632 of 28298

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh, man, Amy, Wolf Hall was riveting. Easily one of the most compelling historical fictions I have ever read. Love. I even gave it to some students who loved it. She makes Thomas Cromwell so...so...rational and appealing and heroic.

I am not surprised that Jilli loved Night Circus. The first chapter just sounds like her. The book has second person chapters interspersed through that are surprisingly effective.

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