The Onion's AV Club is firing on all cylinders this week: neither the random rules interview with Berkeley Breathed nor the collection of favorite Vonnegut quotes should be missed.
Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.
Willow ,'Showtime'
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."
Hayden - Apr 24, 2007 8:22:19 am PDT #2630 of 28176
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Steph L. - Apr 24, 2007 9:05:21 am PDT #2631 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Dear Book Pimpers:
Have finished Shards of Honor. Stop. Library has Barrayar on hold for me; will pick it up after work. Stop. Was at Half-Price Books at lunchtime; bought To Say Nothing of the Dog. Stop.
I also noticed, when at Half-Price Books and looking for Barrayar, that LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section. This both amuses and troubles me.
flea - Apr 24, 2007 9:13:27 am PDT #2632 of 28176
information libertarian
I'm still troubled when I catch Reading Rainbow and see his actual eyes.
dcp - Apr 24, 2007 9:26:53 am PDT #2633 of 28176
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section
James Doohan did a series of three with S. M. Stirling that are pretty good space opera.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 4:09:54 pm PDT #2634 of 28176
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
Ages ago, Lee recommended a non-fiction book about a shipwreck. Was it In the Heart of the Sea, or something else? [link]
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 4:47:59 pm PDT #2635 of 28176
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nope-- it was a Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. [link]
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 5:02:23 pm PDT #2636 of 28176
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
Cool. I didn't think that was it, but I couldn't remember. Now I have another to read.
When I'm up to another shipwreck, anyway. This one was excellent, really gripping, but harrowing.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2007 8:11:41 pm PDT #2637 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ship of Gold is more about the hunt for the shipwreck one hundred years later than it is about the wreck itself. Well, it's about that, but the part I liked the best was about finding it, and the battle over the salvage rights.
Yes, I studied the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in law school. t /geek
... which, consider what I do for a living, is pretty damned ironic. Or prophetic, or something. Something poetic.
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 8:21:32 pm PDT #2638 of 28176
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What she said, though I did enjoy the part leading up to the wreck, too, especially the SF history, and I loved the captain.
sumi - Apr 26, 2007 10:33:36 am PDT #2639 of 28176
Art Crawl!!!
I wanted the deluxe edition of Children of Hurin because of the Alan Lee illustrations but I realized that I couldn't afford it and the regular edition had the classic Tolkien map in it after all - so I got the regular edition.
Guess what? The regular edition is also illustrated by Alan Lee.