Goodness me, yes.
I got stabbed, you know, right here.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
hippocampus - Feb 08, 2013 6:05:22 am PST #20372 of 28350
not your mom's socks.
Consuela - Feb 08, 2013 6:08:58 am PST #20373 of 28350
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis.
And it's a TRILOGY.
Dude, I really do have to get cracking on my writing.
Amy - Feb 08, 2013 6:09:59 am PST #20374 of 28350
Because books.
Dude, I really do have to get cracking on my writing.
This is what I'm saying, people.
Polter-Cow - Feb 08, 2013 7:22:03 am PST #20375 of 28350
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And it's a TRILOGY.
Well duh.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2013 8:28:16 am PST #20376 of 28350
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Cry me a river. No wait...a lost continent."
Amy - Feb 08, 2013 8:34:13 am PST #20377 of 28350
Because books.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2013 8:41:02 am PST #20378 of 28350
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This must have some debate-worthy items on it.
Nothing between 1966 and 1990? They're mad.
meara - Feb 08, 2013 8:44:10 am PST #20379 of 28350
Not sure if this should go in Lit or Tech, but: I want a reading app on my ipad that is better than kindle or ibooks. Because what I want:
1)to be able to side-load DRM-free books that I have downloaded from elsewhere (I can do this in ibooks, but afaik not in the kindle app, though I can sideload with calibre onto my actual kindle)
2) to be able to resize the covers/bookshelf part (the pretty show of covers and such on the ibook bookshelf or kindle page is great and all, but I want to be able to enlarge or reduce it, which I can't seem to do)
3) to be able to click or hold or whatever on a book/cover, and have the description show up. Because seriously, I have a ton of books, and while sometimes I can remember from the cover what it's about, half the time I'm like "Wait, was Countless that YA about the vampires, or the thriller about the accountants, or the romance about the millionaire?"
4) to be able to group the books somehow (folders, bookshelves, collections, whatever. I can do this in ibooks, and I think I can do it in the kindle app? I can do it on my kindle, but haven't tried in the app)
Anyone have an awesome answer for me? I feel like I'm not asking that much of it!
le nubian - Feb 08, 2013 8:47:09 am PST #20380 of 28350
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Stanza?
Fred Pete - Feb 08, 2013 9:13:26 am PST #20381 of 28350
Ann, that's a ferret.
This must have some debate-worthy items on it.
A few things come to mind:
I'd like to see why the author included certain less well-known works/events. I seem to lack the poetry appreciation gene, so I really can't judge the worthiness of "The Song of the Shirt." And I really can't say why it belongs in a 50-Greatest list.
As for Shakespeare, I'd probably drop his sonnets in favor of his output of 1595: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard II. At the dawn of modern drama, he wrote one of the world's greatest comedies, one of the world's greatest tragedies, and a superior history play -- all in one year. Nothing against the sonnets, but Shakespeare didn't play a role in inventing the sonnet.
Amazon or the Internet/Web or the word processor? Electronic sales/distribution or electronic publicatino or electronic creation? I'd argue that the word processor has as much right as the typewriter to a spot in the top 50.
Hec, what do you think belongs in the list from the 1966-1990 era? LOTR comes to mind, kicking off a huge wave of SF/fantasy, but that was published in 1954-55.