I didn't, and didn't feel the lack. Though I do want to read Three Men in a Boat, now.
Welcome to the Hellmouth petting zoo.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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, 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
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.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2007 4:55:19 am PDT #2607 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. That's a weird woman to pick to be your only.
I don't shop in many bookstores that aren't Borders or B&N, so I'm rarely presented with that sort of winnowing.
How is their standard SF shelf? Better balanced?
Dana - Apr 20, 2007 5:33:45 am PDT #2608 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oxford University Press is having a big spring sale.
Hayden - Apr 20, 2007 6:42:15 am PDT #2609 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."