I like the Rincewind books. The Luggage! Twoflowers!
Death is in pretty much every book, right? Sometimes not for long, but he shows up...
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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 - Apr 19, 2013 12:02:14 pm PDT #20707 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Liese S. - Apr 19, 2013 12:04:34 pm PDT #20708 of 28370
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Heck, I even like the Moist Von Lipwig books.
-t - Apr 19, 2013 12:07:33 pm PDT #20709 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Because those are great!
I may be an uncritical reader of Discworld books. It's possible.
Polter-Cow - Apr 19, 2013 12:08:18 pm PDT #20710 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like the Rincewind books, but I'm not a big fan of The Last Continent.
I haven't read Moist yet! But I hear good things.
Liese S. - Apr 19, 2013 12:12:23 pm PDT #20711 of 28370
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I may be an uncritical reader of Discworld books. It's possible.
Guilty. I know there are problematic issues with them (hello, Twoflower racism!) but I really love the Discworld. They are basically my perpetual comfort reread, a spot previously held by HHGttG. But with so many more books, I am farther from being able to quote the entire "trilogy" in order.
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2013 12:22:51 pm PDT #20712 of 28370
brillig
I haven't read Moist yet!
I prefer the post office to the bank.
DavidS - Apr 19, 2013 7:27:23 pm PDT #20713 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Los Angelenos, you have let me down!
Nobody mentioned the awesomeness of The Last Bookstore!
It's an old Crocker Bank that's been wallowing in disuse for decades. Now it has a labyrinth of books upstairs for a dollar each! Great layout, and supporting super cool local art studios and the staff were playing a great Sparks album while I was there. Such a cool bookstore and space!
Toddson - Apr 22, 2013 5:31:22 am PDT #20714 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My apartment building has a place in the laundry room where people can drop off stuff they don't want but don't want to just throw away. I scored a whole stack of Terry Pratchett books; remembering some posts from Friday, I noticed them because the one on top was "Mort".
Toddson - Apr 22, 2013 10:14:34 am PDT #20715 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re bookstores - there used to be a place called Chaos Unlimited that specialized in second-hand mysteries and SF. It was on the second and third stories of an old townhouse that had another store on the first/ground floor. It was a warren of shelves that formed little alcoves and you had to hunt through for things, although they did have the books in order by author names. Because of the bookshelves, they had a sign saying "upstairs went thataway" with an arrow since the steps were hard to find.
Nice place - they had a comfy old armchair where you could sit to browse through books and (as many of the best bookstores do) a cat. And, since the cat tended to lie in the middle of the doorway (as cats will) I and most other patrons got used to stepping carefully over it to get in.
Of course, it closed. sigh.
Connie Neil - Apr 22, 2013 11:03:49 am PDT #20716 of 28370
brillig
All bookstores need cats.