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.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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 - 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
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.
Volans - May 30, 2007 3:16:50 am PDT #2695 of 28176
move out and draw fire
Sox, I think you might be onto something, as Vellum seems to be making more sense now that I'm on cold medicine.
I'm in the middle section, where Seamus is Prometheus.
You're right, it has the whole Assyrian/Sumerian me is equivalent to computer code thing from Stephenson, and there's also a certain amount of similarity to Illuminatus. I am also reminded of the rpg Nobilis, but maybe that's the Scots-Irish authorship.
Dana - May 31, 2007 10:36:34 am PDT #2696 of 28176
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My favorite line from the terrible, terrible romance novel I picked up for free:
They stared at each other, lone-wolf amber mating briefly with angelic blue innocence.
I thought for a second I'd tripped into Nikita fic.
DavidS - May 31, 2007 10:37:44 am PDT #2697 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's pretty horrible. But it doesn't involve psychic bestiality whatever, so I've heard worse.
sumi - May 31, 2007 10:38:37 am PDT #2698 of 28176
Art Crawl!!!
That's hilarious.
Anyone else in the middle of an HP re-read? I just started HP&GOF this morning. With just about a month before #7, I have the three longest books left to read!