Frank, I've got some of Basil Rathbone's horror recordings if you want to revisit your past.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
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."
DavidS - Jan 16, 2014 8:15:26 pm PST #21981 of 28358
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Jan 17, 2014 6:22:53 am PST #21982 of 28358
Always Anti-fascist!
Are there two, cause I thought Baltimore had the Poe House? Leading to the Wire moment of cornerboys being asked where the Poe house is and saying "Man, look around!"
WindSparrow - Jan 17, 2014 7:48:35 am PST #21983 of 28358
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I can't speak definitively about Baltimore's Poe house, but I think there is more than one and I do know that Poe did live in Baltimore. I think Philadelphia was earlier in his career.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 17, 2014 7:50:26 am PST #21984 of 28358
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hec, that would be awesome, but I'm not very adept (as in not at all) with downloading. Guess I could give it a shot though.
You don't have any of Vincent Price's by chance? I used to borrower those from the library as well.
DavidS - Jan 17, 2014 2:27:23 pm PST #21985 of 28358
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, that would be awesome
Three sent to your profile addy. You just click on the attachments and save them and they'll play on anything that runs an MP3.
I sent:
The Raven - Basil Rathbone
The Hand of Fate - Boris Karloff
Baba Yaga - Vincent Price
le nubian - Jan 20, 2014 9:24:17 am PST #21986 of 28358
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Y'all I have not caught up in here since the end of last semester. Two things to contribute:
1) flea, I suspect Casper wants to read Divergent because the movie is coming out very soon. I agree with what others have said about how to handle it. I also agree with Tep that the 3rd book is a hot mess. I actually wish I hadn't read it. Wherever I thought the story was going to go after the 2nd book would have been 1000% better than where the author took the story.
2) Has anyone here read THE SILENT WIFE? I just finished that book and I'd like to discuss it.
Polgara - Jan 20, 2014 10:25:55 am PST #21987 of 28358
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
I've had Allegiant sitting on my Kindle since it came out, but I'm afraid to read it based on everything I've heard. I'm hoping with some distance, I'll forget how awesome the first two were, and won't make unfavorable comparisons. So, maybe sometime in 2015...
Amy - Jan 20, 2014 11:36:12 am PST #21988 of 28358
Because books.
I think I've heard of The Silent Wife, le nubian, but I haven't read it.
The Scorpio Games is killing me. She keeps twisting the plot unexpectedly, and it's SO GOOD.
JZ, if you're around, I keep thinking you would love this book. It has a timeless quality that reminds me of you.
le nubian - Jan 20, 2014 12:13:33 pm PST #21989 of 28358
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, I don't recommend The Silent Wife at all. There are comparisons to Gone Baby Gone, but aside for there being a husband and wife perspective, the comparisons are not particularly apt. The plot is not the same, the characters aren't really the same. The book isn't even one that compelled me to read it until the end in a weekend.
The ending of the book (which is foreshadowed very early in the book) came WAY too late and seemed rushed. Despite a lot of text (pages and pages) of the characters inner thoughts, there does not seem to be satisfying explanations for why characters did some of the key things they did.
Ginger - Jan 20, 2014 12:31:55 pm PST #21990 of 28358
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My feeling about Allegiant is that Roth envisioned a story about people raised to suppress all but one aspect of personality and what happens when someone moves from one faction to another. When she tried to come up with how that society was created, she started digging herself into a hole and then forgot the first rule of holes.
The problem with the dual narration is that the voices sound exactly the same. Absent phrases like "I watched Tris leave," I challenge anyone to tell the difference.
More spoilery: The genetic purity folks are supposedly trying to increase the number of genetically pure people, as well as finding a social structure that the genetically damaged can live in without destroying themselves. It makes absolutely no sense to leave the Divergent in the experiment, where they may well get killed and never pass on their precious genes. Also, they're not going to get Divergents from the gene fairy. The only way they could show up in a population is if the original pure genes were recessive.
Also, after a devastating war, they manage to put a chain-link fence around a big chunk of Chicago and the people stay inside just because they're told it's dangerous out there? The Dauntless would be vaulting that fence every day and twice on Sunday.
Then there's the ham-handed storyline about the genetically damaged being second-class citizens.
In short, "If you want to send a message, call Western Union."