Tapes are fine; the kids trashed my boombox, and the CD player no longer works, anyway.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
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."
Strix - Feb 13, 2007 10:56:33 am PST #1943 of 28260
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Kathy A - Feb 13, 2007 10:58:59 am PST #1944 of 28260
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cool! I'll make sure to pull it out this spring and dub it for you.
JohnSweden - Feb 13, 2007 11:10:41 am PST #1945 of 28260
I can't even.
I'm re-reading Connie Willis' Lincoln's Dreams. I'm just a couple of chapters in, so the magical realism drug-like effect it had on me when I first read it hasn't kicked in yet. Maybe it won't. I'm enjoying the details so far.
Amy - Feb 13, 2007 11:16:26 am PST #1946 of 28260
Because books.
Try some Edith Wharton, if you're in a mood. I like her better than Henry James, except "The Turn of the Screw."
I adore Edith Wharton, but I've already read everything of hers. Well, almost anyway.
I'm not sure if I would ever be in the mood for The Odyssey.
Kathy A - Feb 13, 2007 11:19:55 am PST #1947 of 28260
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I first read The Odyssey in college, and it really is a riveting story, AmyLiz! Just like with Beowulf, you have to get the right translation, otherwise it can be a slog to get through. The Fagles is excellent--IIRC, he just published a translation of The Aeneid in the past few months.
Connie Neil - Feb 13, 2007 12:04:40 pm PST #1948 of 28260
brillig
I read The Odyssey for fun a few years ago. I had it on the bus one day and was snickering over some snark, and somebody in another seat asked me what class I was reading it for. They looked uneasy when I told them I was reading it for fun. The same kind of look when I was reading "Engines of Creation" on the bus. Freak the mundanes!
IAmNotReallyASpring - Feb 13, 2007 4:05:32 pm PST #1949 of 28260
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Banville's The Sea
Corwood, have you read any of his other stuff? It's the same but more.
brenda m - Feb 13, 2007 4:19:12 pm PST #1950 of 28260
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I adore Edith Wharton, but I've already read everything of hers. Well, almost anyway.
Including the porn?
Amy - Feb 13, 2007 4:30:11 pm PST #1951 of 28260
Because books.
Including the porn?
The what now?!
brenda m - Feb 13, 2007 4:35:13 pm PST #1952 of 28260
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Dude, you haven't seen? Did you ever read the story Beatrice Palmato?
(Not where the porn is, but related)