I know a Lauren Billings. She was a bartender at my regular bar, and then she moved to Tahoe to play poker.
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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."
This must have some debate-worthy items on it
I don't understand why a German novel that I've never heard of (WG Sebald: Vertigo, 1990) is on that list. Did it have some impact on Anglo-American lit?
Just started Gone Girl -- maybe four chapters in -- and I love it. She's an incredible writer. I'm a little wary about hating the plot of it toward the end, because there was a pretty divisive twist, right?
a German novel that I've never heard of (WG Sebald: Vertigo, 1990)
I didn't even know it was German, just that I'd never heard of it, and didn't care enough to click. I didn't disagree with a whole lot of, though, so maybe it was important?
I do think choosing just fifty anything from the whole history of literate is tough, and she might have been better off choosing only books, or only cultural events.
I'm a little wary about hating the plot of it toward the end, because there was a pretty divisive twist, right?
To say the least .
I didn't even know it was German, just that I'd never heard of it, and didn't care enough to click. I didn't disagree with a whole lot of, though, so maybe it was important?
Yeah, given this
an attempt to identify some of the hinge moments in our literature – a composite of significant events, notable poems, plays, and novels, plus influential deaths
it's actually a pretty good list, but I think I'd like to see at least a small attempt to explain why a book is a turning point.
Even as little as "The Moonstone": First detective novel, "Life of Johnson": The epitome of biography, etc.
This must have some debate-worthy items on it
It's not a bad list, but it's really incomplete without "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the first detective story, and something by Wells and/or Verne for SF. "The Song of the Shirt" is one of the first well-known works about the treatment of the working poor, but I would have gone with Dickens. I think it also needs Little Women as a milestone in realistic literature for young people; and Penguin paperbacks, which made literature much more widely available.
Amy,
I don't know what to say without spoiling. I will just say that the book is a trip and a half. I truly disliked the ending and I think megan liked it.
I think megan liked it.
I'm not sure liked is the right word, but I thought it was the perfect ending, the one that made the most sense.
Ok, in my hunt for a good iPad ebook reader, I joined goodreads. And uploaded all my books. Oddly, their app has a reader that you can download and read books in, but you can't seem to add your own books to. I also downloaded another free app, to try. Will let you know if its good.
meara, have you tried Readmill app?
"The Song of the Shirt" is one of the first well-known works about the treatment of the working poor, but I would have gone with Dickens.
Thanks for the explanation, Ginger. Although I'd argue that Elizabeth Gaskell was better than Dickens in her literary treatment of the working poor, Dickens was first.