My copy arrived as a complete surprise from my best friend! I got a package from Amazon and I was confused because I hadn't ordered anything. Even more confused when I opened the package and thought, "well I wanted to read this but I must have been drunk when I ordered it!" until I saw her name on the sales slip.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
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."
Laga - May 28, 2007 3:48:39 pm PDT #2685 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hippocampus - May 29, 2007 5:17:02 am PDT #2686 of 28176
not your mom's socks.
Anybody read Vellum ? I think I'm almost halfway in, and there does not appear to be a plot. Or a story. Barely any characters. And it's too clever by half.
Hi Raq! - I've read it. It's pretty multithreaded. And very closely tied with some of Neal Stephenson's (not the angels, but.) It does get a little clearer towards the middle.... For me, taking allergy medicine helped.
Where are you in it?
Steph L. - May 29, 2007 3:57:57 pm PDT #2687 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
All right, so. I just finished The Warrior's Apprentice.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who cried got a little teary-eyed when Miles buried Bothari.
sarameg - May 29, 2007 4:48:53 pm PDT #2688 of 28176
So I'm only halfway in to The Sewing Circles of Herat.
It's part war-journalism, part history, part women's history, part diary, part travelogue of Afghanistan. The author is a journalist who was there during the end of the Soviet era, and who returned shortly after 9/11. She was hustled around the country by those who'd later become the Taliban, which is just surreal. I'm having a very hard time NOT reading the last chapters first to find out the fate of the Afghan woman who wrote letters to the author (who she did not know-letters are peppered through out) and had them smuggled out.
It's has an almost dreamlike quality, even as it is brutal.
I really recommend it.
Ginger - May 29, 2007 5:04:02 pm PDT #2689 of 28176
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Please tell me I'm not the only one who cried when Miles buried Bothari.
When Miles said the line about being able to see everything because he was on Bothari's shoulders, I just sobbed.
Jessica - May 29, 2007 5:34:35 pm PDT #2690 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When Miles said the line about being able to see everything because he was on Bothari's shoulders, I just sobbed.
Oh man. Just reading it here gets me choked up.
brenda m - May 29, 2007 5:47:21 pm PDT #2691 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
Oh lord yes.
Consuela - May 29, 2007 6:00:36 pm PDT #2692 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, Bothari.
Certainly the most moving portrayal of a sociopath that I've ever read. (Or is he a psychopath? I'm really not sure...)
-t - May 29, 2007 6:41:42 pm PDT #2693 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Bothari. Tep, I so envy you getting to read these for the first time. I should reread them, myself. But there are so many books still completely unread.
Speaking of, I started the Harry Potter books, just finished the Chamber of Secrets. They're pretty good! DH is watching the movies with me. I must check the library's web site and see if they have the next ones ready for me to pick up yet...
Steph L. - May 29, 2007 6:45:35 pm PDT #2694 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, Bothari.
Certainly the most moving portrayal of a sociopath that I've ever read. (Or is he a psychopath? I'm really not sure...)
I love Bothari. I mean, if he were real and sat down beside me on the bus, I might edge away and get off at the next stop even if it weren't really my stop.
But as a character? God, I love him.
When Miles said the line about being able to see everything because he was on Bothari's shoulders, I just sobbed.
That made my heart go ping! but it didn't make me cry. And when Miles told Elena, "I can't live without my Bothari," it also made my heart go ping! but it didn't make me cry.
But for some reason, when Miles is burying Bothari, and burning the offerings, and delivering such a fitting elegy, *that* made me cry.