Thomas Hardy! t hisssss
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Dana - Jul 10, 2012 3:37:58 pm PDT #19301 of 28765
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:40:47 pm PDT #19302 of 28765
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Actually, come to think of it, I hated many books we read in school-- I think I only liked The Great Gatsby, Silas Marner, and The Diary of Anne Frank. I have no idea what lead me to be an English Lit major after all those terribly boring books, and it was a little frustrating in high school that I was such a big reader and didn't like anything.
Amy - Jul 10, 2012 3:41:53 pm PDT #19303 of 28765
Because books.
Oh, I also love Hardy! Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favorites.
Dana - Jul 10, 2012 3:42:43 pm PDT #19304 of 28765
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I was assigned Pride and Prejudice in AP English and blew it off, did terrible on the test. And then, of course, I loved it. That was not one of my smarter decisions.
Connie Neil - Jul 10, 2012 3:44:02 pm PDT #19305 of 28765
brillig
God bless Mr. Berryhill, who had Lord of the Rings as extra credit and The Hobbit as a required book. And whose Advanced English Lit course was really "How much Shakespeare can we cram into a schoolyear?"
Calli - Jul 10, 2012 3:45:44 pm PDT #19306 of 28765
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Henry James is cilantro, I expect. I love his books, but a number of people don't care for them.
Atropa - Jul 10, 2012 3:46:25 pm PDT #19307 of 28765
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I probably should eventually read The Man Who Was Thursday. People who write things I love adore the book, so there's a good chance that it would be the sort of literary cilantro I love.
And now I'm wondering what else is literary cilantro.
I can, as an intelectual exercise, see where some of Ray Bradbury's work would be not to some people's tastes. In fact, there are times when I fear that Pete will eventually read Something Wicked This Way Comes or From Dust Returned and HATE them. And then I'd be horrified and sad.
Oh! Francesca Lia Block. I love love love her writing, but I'm certain other people think it's way too twee.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:49:26 pm PDT #19308 of 28765
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have to confess I could not get through LOTR or the Hobbit, either...
Amy - Jul 10, 2012 3:52:27 pm PDT #19309 of 28765
Because books.
Yeah, I tried Francesca Lia Block and couldn't do it. I wanted to like her, though.
I've never read LotR, either, and I doubt I will. I love the *story* but I know it too well by now to read what seems like sort of boring prose.
smonster - Jul 10, 2012 3:56:27 pm PDT #19310 of 28765
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I hated the Hobbit, so it took me forever to get around to LotR. Loved it when I finally did, though.