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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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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Polter-Cow - Feb 03, 2007 10:34:48 am PST #1930 of 28502
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Also, I mean, usually when an author has more time in production, there is more time for the editor to reach the threshold number of hammer-blows to the head to convince the author that the book is 200 pages too long.

I wonder how long Foucault's Pendulum was in production.

DavidS - Feb 03, 2007 1:03:54 pm PST #1931 of 28502
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Visiting Flannery O'Connor's Georgia - in the Times, so read it quick before it slips behind the archive.

JZ sent that to me today. Very worth reading if you're a fan.

Laga - Feb 03, 2007 7:12:36 pm PST #1932 of 28502
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Who can tell me which author wrote (in a poem about a poem) "If you had watched me write it, I would have hit you, POW!" I'm probably not quoting it accurately which might explain why I haven't been able to find it all these years.

Nilly - Feb 04, 2007 3:46:56 am PST #1933 of 28502
Swouncing

Thanks for the style instructions, y'all!

Strix - Feb 13, 2007 9:37:32 am PST #1934 of 28502
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I read "Moon Called" by Patricia Briggs last night, and thought it pretty good. Good enough that I will also read the next one. I like the heroine, Mercy, quite a lot. Good combo of comptence and realism, I think.

That is all. I just hate to see the Lit thread all mute and helpless.

Amy - Feb 13, 2007 9:43:36 am PST #1935 of 28502
Because books.

I just hate to see the Lit thread all mute and helpless.

Aw!

I read The Time-Traveler's Wife last month (and loved it!) and am now starting on my program of Attempting to Better Myself by reading classics I missed somewhere along the way. I'm starting with Mrs. Dalloway, which is good but takes a little more concentration that I usually have at 11 p.m., which is when I usually get to read. Next up is something by Henry James, I think. Or possibly Great Expectations.

Strix - Feb 13, 2007 10:17:18 am PST #1936 of 28502
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Try some Edith Wharton, if you're in a mood. I like her better than Henry James, except "The Turn of the Screw."

If you want to go all Old Skool classic, try "The Odyssey"

Kathy A - Feb 13, 2007 10:29:18 am PST #1937 of 28502
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I have got to pull out my old book-on-tape (wish I had it on CD, now) of Ian McKellen reading Fagles' translation of The Odyssey.

Strix - Feb 13, 2007 10:31:46 am PST #1938 of 28502
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Ooh, yum, Kathy! I might hit you up for a dub of that next fall; I teach "The Odyssey" to my seniors.

lisah - Feb 13, 2007 10:45:02 am PST #1939 of 28502
Punishingly Intricate

Try some Edith Wharton, if you're in a mood. I like her better than Henry James, except "The Turn of the Screw."

I'd second this rec. I find her way more entertaining than he is.

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