Xander ,'Beneath You'
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."
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...
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.
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.
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.
That's pretty horrible. But it doesn't involve psychic bestiality whatever, so I've heard worse.
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!
I just started Sorceror's Stone last night! I figure if I can read one book a week, I'll be on track to finish HBP by mid-July, just in time for Deathly Hallows.
They stared at each other, lone-wolf amber mating briefly with angelic blue innocence
I...so they're eyefucking? Wow.
Kathy, that's a great idea. I probably will do the HP re-read AFTER Book 7 comes out. Although given that I'm expecting the worst (no spoilers, just pessimistic), I might be re-reading the series through my tears...
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!
I need to start mine - alas, my books are in storage. Maybe I can borrow them from my cousins.