Excellent, thank you!
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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."
-t - Nov 26, 2012 11:23:37 am PST #20129 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Nov 26, 2012 6:57:22 pm PST #20130 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Augh, I want to buy the Sayers, except I don't think I need them all, but then which ones do I choose? It's not like I'm going to get rid of my paper copies, so then it's only for convenience...
I could get Gaudy Night, Have His Carcasse, and Busman's Honeymoon. And Murder Must Advertise. And The Nine Tailors. Oh, shit, and Strong Poison.
Typo Boy - Nov 26, 2012 7:02:05 pm PST #20131 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.
Personally, if I needed to drop a couple, I'd skip The Nine Tailors and Have His Carcasse. I did like all the Whimsey novels but those two were my least favorite. The Nine Tailors because I could not get interested in the bell ringing details. "Have His Carcasse" because it is the only one of the series I can't remember a single detail of, so apparently nothing of it whatever stuck.
Dana - Nov 26, 2012 7:07:10 pm PST #20132 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Have His Carcasse is definitely the weakest of the Peter and Harriet books, but I'm too much of a completist to leave it out, and it has some scenes I really like.
And I'm a musician, so I like the bell ringing, though it's kind of insane.
-t - Nov 26, 2012 7:38:05 pm PST #20133 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The bell ringing details were my favorite part!
Dana - Nov 26, 2012 7:44:25 pm PST #20134 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I ended up getting Strong Poison through the end, and leaving out The Nine Tailors.
Connie Neil - Nov 26, 2012 8:28:35 pm PST #20135 of 28344
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I like Nine Tailors for the images of the flooding.
Consuela - Nov 29, 2012 2:22:37 pm PST #20136 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
sj - Nov 30, 2012 12:31:11 pm PST #20137 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best English translation of Les Miserables?
DavidS - Nov 30, 2012 12:50:06 pm PST #20138 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best English translation of Les Miserables?
Don't get the one where they translated the title as The Sad Heads.
Also the cover for that one totally spoils that it's a book about bread.