Ooh, there's a new annotated Pride and Prejudice . . . three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Of course not. I have at least four copies, and now I want that one too.
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
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."
sj - Mar 18, 2007 4:47:06 am PDT #2238 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Kate P. - Mar 18, 2007 7:05:39 am PDT #2239 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I went ahead and added my name to the Buffista LibraryThing group -- I'm risingtide, for them that's curious. Don't know when I'll get around to actually putting in more books, but this gives me a little more incentive now.
Sue - Mar 18, 2007 7:14:43 am PDT #2240 of 28175
hip deep in pie
Sumi, there was an article in the Globe and Mail this weekend that talks about the new round of Austen interest. One thing I thought was interesting was that they are republishing the books with covers to attract teenage girls, and the new biopic, Jane Austen in Love (or soemthing like that) is being targeted to the same demographic. I guess it makes sense, most people are probably introduced to Jane Austen in their teens, but it still strikes me as odd.
Atropa - Mar 18, 2007 8:12:20 am PDT #2241 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Dracula
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Something Wicked This Way Comes
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Tanith Lee's Blood Opera trilogy.
Um, of course not?
erikaj - Mar 18, 2007 9:40:39 am PDT #2242 of 28175
Always Anti-fascist!
I have three copies of "A Year On The Killing streets." One hardback, one beat-to-death soft cover, and the new reissued Anniversary one.
sumi - Mar 18, 2007 11:38:05 am PDT #2243 of 28175
Art Crawl!!!
You mean the movie "Becoming Jane Austen?"
I did a quick Amazon check and the book isn't new -- it's just newly out in paperback which is even better for me and my lack of funds.
Sue - Mar 18, 2007 12:01:19 pm PDT #2244 of 28175
hip deep in pie
Yeah, that's the movie I meant, Sumi. In the article they quote someone as saying that Anne Hathaway was cast because she's got a following among young female fans of the Princess Diaries, and those girls are all 15-16 now, and that's the target audience for the movie.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2007 2:00:57 pm PDT #2245 of 28175
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just signed up for LibraryThing. I'm LarisaG. Just five books in, and there's already one where I'm the only user who owns it. (The Vegetarian Traveler. Basically, it's a few paragraphs for practically any country you might want to travel to about where and how to get vegetarian meals, plus how to say "I'm vegetarian" and "Do you have anything without meat?" and similar things in about 100 different languages.)
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2007 2:44:19 pm PDT #2246 of 28175
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Heh. And the one that I was positive would be unique -- the Chemical Rubber Company book of Standard Mathematical Tables -- is owned by 39 other users.
Sparky1 - Mar 18, 2007 2:56:59 pm PDT #2247 of 28175
Librarian Warlord
(As a librarian, I can't help but wonder when LibraryThing will be the catalog we all use instead of RLIN or OCLC to find the books our libraries don't own.)