Imagine me reading Flip out loud in my best disaffected teenager voice. She'll annoy you even more! (mr. flea could barely stand it.)
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
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."
flea - Apr 19, 2007 7:25:58 am PDT #2597 of 28175
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Polter-Cow - Apr 19, 2007 8:24:11 am PDT #2598 of 28175
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Best. Book. Promotional. Website. Ever: [link]
Oh, wow, that is awesome. I was loving her already and was interested in her book, and then Dave Eggers compared her to Lorrie Moore, and now I need to remember to go see her on May 16 when she comes to San Francisco.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2007 3:31:29 pm PDT #2599 of 28175
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Just finished Bellwether. Sheep. Hee!
If I were to read To Say Nothing of the Dog, should I read Three Men in a Boat first? (I actually read it in college in a Brit. Lit. class, but I cannot remember one damned thing about it, other than feeling sorry for Jerome K. Jerome because of his name.)
-t - Apr 19, 2007 3:37:26 pm PDT #2600 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't, and didn't feel the lack. Though I do want to read Three Men in a Boat, now.
Ginger - Apr 19, 2007 4:13:30 pm PDT #2601 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Just finished Bellwether. Sheep. Hee!
Barbies! Bobbed hair! Duct tape!
When I first read To Say Nothing of the Dog, it had been years since I read Three Men in a Boat. I remembered enough to catch the jokes. I don't think it's necessary, though.
meara - Apr 19, 2007 5:19:23 pm PDT #2602 of 28175
I'm with -t...have never read it, kind of want to now...still enjoyed "To Say Nothing..." without that.
Kate P. - Apr 19, 2007 5:30:29 pm PDT #2603 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I read To Say Nothing of the Dog without having read Three Men in a Boat and loved it. I might have missed a few jokes, but I still thought it was hilarious. (There was also at least one joke that I remember that I wouldn't have understood without reading some Buffista discussions about, hm, I think it was Georgette Heyer? Anyway, I felt Very Cultured about getting that one.)
brenda m - Apr 19, 2007 5:53:06 pm PDT #2604 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
-t is me. And so is meara, apparenlty. Except probably not as drunkl, at least if we go by speeling.
Jessica - Apr 19, 2007 6:10:11 pm PDT #2605 of 28175
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read To Say Nothing of the Dog without having read Three Men in a Boat and loved it.
Me four.
Consuela - Apr 19, 2007 6:46:04 pm PDT #2606 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And 5. I almost bought the Jerome last weekend, though. But didn't, because there were other books demanding my attention.
I stood for a while in front of the new science fiction shelf at Moe's, looking at the titles.
What I learned was interesting: the only female writer on that shelf was Jaqueline Carey. Granted, Moe's has a small new SF shelf, just six feet by six.
But still: one woman? WTF? No Bear, Walton, Traviss, Cherryh, McKillip, McKinley, or Bujold. Just Carey. Not even Hamilton.