Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
OMG thank you.
Right?? I thought I was the only person who didn't love that book.
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2012 8:41:54 am PDT #19821 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 9:28:19 am PDT #19822 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
Funnily enough, I thought it would be up your alley, PC. Of course, I should know better than to guess at that stuff given the ultraviolent dreck I sometimes get recommended because I "like mysteries" ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Gris - Sep 27, 2012 9:41:33 am PDT #19823 of 28344
Hey. New board.
I enjoyed it. I don't remember it at all, but I enjoyed it at the time.
I read Special Topics in Calamity Physics at about the same time (so they are forever linked in my brain for no real reason) and enjoyed it more. And remember it better.
Calli - Sep 27, 2012 9:48:55 am PDT #19824 of 28344
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
My niece thought I might like the Left Behind series. To be fair, she was ~11 at the time.
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2012 9:55:34 am PDT #19825 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Funnily enough, I thought it would be up your alley, PC.
Me too!
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Well, people did tell me to read the Dark Is Rising books...though maybe not in a direct, you-would-like-this way.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 9:55:40 am PDT #19826 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
One of mine was, despite not fitting in the "Violent Misogyny" category mentioned previously, because, really, those just turn into a blur of "Who the hell do you think I am?" Those "The Cat Who..." books. I do love mysteries and cats, and we even had a little Siamese for a while, but somehow? THe books left me less than charmed.
sumi - Sep 27, 2012 9:58:49 am PDT #19827 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
GRRM "It Gets Better" - spoilery for Storm of Swords and beyond.
Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2012 10:20:34 am PDT #19828 of 28344
brillig
I love Tolkien's illustrations, they're so very Arts and Crafts.
Typo Boy - Sep 27, 2012 10:55:06 am PDT #19829 of 28344
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I bought one of the "cat who" series for 50 cents at the hospital once. It did not take me long to put it down in favor of meditating on the patterns in the peeling wall paper and the various and the play of light and shadow between the IV tubes and various other pieces of medical equipment.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 11:17:46 am PDT #19830 of 28344
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I read all the then-published Cat Who books while I was recovering from foot surgery back in 2005. They were addictive but oddly depressing. Once I was mobile again, I stopped reading them and gave them all away.