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.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'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."
Ginger - Apr 19, 2007 4:13:30 pm PDT #2601 of 28556
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
meara - Apr 19, 2007 5:19:23 pm PDT #2602 of 28556
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 28556
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 28556
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 28556
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 28556
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 28556
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 28556
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Oxford University Press is having a big spring sale.
Hayden - Apr 20, 2007 6:42:15 am PDT #2609 of 28556
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Jon B. - Apr 20, 2007 6:53:51 am PDT #2610 of 28556
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Heh. FAQWife just forwarded that to me. I love the Sarah Vowell bit.