I started cataloging my books on LibraryThing last year, but then got too caught up in my actual cataloging class to want to do it in my spare time as well. I'd like to go back and finish it someday, but it's gonna take a damn long time...
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Kate P. - Mar 08, 2007 4:24:32 pm PST #2059 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hayden - Mar 08, 2007 7:25:46 pm PST #2060 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Wow, that site is a lot of fun. Here's a couple of shelves near me right now: [link]
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:03:53 am PST #2061 of 28175
Mostly lurking...
So, anyone want to chat silly Poe with me? Just finished reading Wiliam Wilson. That wasn't too predictable. @@
Strega - Mar 09, 2007 5:21:03 am PST #2062 of 28175
Well, a lot of Poe's stories seem cheesy and cliched now, but they weren't at the time. But I'll admit that "William Wilson" was never one of my favorites.
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:27:44 am PST #2063 of 28175
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I'm not sure I'd call them cheesy and cliched. I just don't like his writing style, and I thought that "William Wilson" was the most predictable of what I've read so far.
On the other hand, I got it the first time around, so that was nice (unlike "The Cask of Amontillado," which I had to read a few times to make sure what I thought happened really was what had happened).
Strega - Mar 09, 2007 5:32:24 am PST #2064 of 28175
For the love of God, Montressor!
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:35:45 am PST #2065 of 28175
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Ok. Just finished "The Man of the Crowd." That one I liked. His descriptions were really quite amazing.
Nutty - Mar 09, 2007 5:45:34 am PST #2066 of 28175
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I liked "The Man in the Crowd" too -- I read it in a course called Imagination and the City, about 19th C. Paris and London. Just the density and all-day-all-nightness of those cities, for the first time in history (or possibly just a long, long time), the variety -- I think of New York in the 20th C the way I think of Paris and London in the 19th.
Except that frock coats are just prettier than gigantic puffy parkas and clamp-earmuffs.
In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner, with a circumflex over the a, meaning to walk without a specific destination, just sort of absorbing the atmosphere. I haven't found a comparable word in English, yet.
Amy - Mar 09, 2007 5:51:06 am PST #2067 of 28175
Because books.
In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner, with a circumflex over the a, meaning to walk without a specific destination, just sort of absorbing the atmosphere. I haven't found a comparable word in English, yet.
Amble? Not quite it, I guess.
I like flaner a lot. I also like TO flaner a lot.
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:51:38 am PST #2068 of 28175
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In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner, with a circumflex over the a, meaning to walk without a specific destination, just sort of absorbing the atmosphere. I haven't found a comparable word in English, yet.
Interesting. I'm lazy and don't often look up words I don't know. I usually just put them into context, which, yes, lazy. So, that's interesting to know.