Um, wow. That's something to be considered, though I'm not sure a suite is something I'd need. The building looks like a building out of an Argento movie.
Zoe: So you two were kissin'? Book: Well. Isn't that... special?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Frankenbuddha - Jun 07, 2012 8:08:51 am PDT #19114 of 28342
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sue - Jun 07, 2012 12:48:51 pm PDT #19115 of 28342
hip deep in pie
Ahhhh! My friend just emailed me for the first time in months to tell me he's interviewing Joan Didion on stage next week at the theatre where he works. [link]
I am half-crazed with jealousy and want to invite myself down. I've read pretty much everything she's written.
chrismg - Jun 07, 2012 4:18:34 pm PDT #19116 of 28342
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
A couple quotes from Bradbury - this first one is him on Something Wicked This Way Comes; I found the quote in Stephen King's Danse Macabre, so I'm not sure where it's from:
Along the way I said all and everything, just about, that I would ever want to say about my younger self and how I felt about that terrifying thing: Life, and that other terror: Death, and the exhilaration of both. But above all, I did a loving thing without realizing it. I wrote a paean to my father. I didn't realize it until one night in 1965, a few years after the novel had been published. Sleepless, I got up and prowled my library, found the novel, reread certain passages, and burst into tears. My father was locked into the novel, forever, as the father in the book! I wish he had lived to read himself there, and be proud of his bravery on behalf of his loving son.
And one exchange from the end of The Halloween Tree:
Tom: Oh, Mr Moundshroud, will we EVER stop being afraid of nights and death?
Moundshroud: When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.
Toddson - Jun 08, 2012 11:47:22 am PDT #19117 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
HAIL! The aeslin mice are on Twitter.
Polter-Cow - Jun 08, 2012 12:01:55 pm PDT #19118 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ahahahaha.
Toddson - Jun 08, 2012 12:43:25 pm PDT #19119 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And a pretty good review of Discount Armageddon.
The mice seem to be universally popular. As long as they aren't real and living with you, I guess.
Steph L. - Jun 08, 2012 12:54:21 pm PDT #19120 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
HAIL! The aeslin mice are on Twitter.
That's awesome. #hail
Polter-Cow - Jun 08, 2012 12:54:38 pm PDT #19121 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think I saw one reviewer who said they were annoying. HEATHEN.
-t - Jun 08, 2012 12:59:00 pm PDT #19122 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I like Discount Armageddon, and love the mice (#hail), but what is the title supposed to mean?
Polter-Cow - Jun 08, 2012 1:03:41 pm PDT #19123 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think she said it was because it was like Armageddon-lite, like it wasn't really the end of the world, but something less catastrophic. I'll see if I can find the IM when I go home. A later book is called Half-Off Ragnarok, so the real answer is probably just...it's a fun title.