I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.

Buffy ,'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."


Steph L. - May 29, 2007 6:45:35 pm PDT #2694 of 28260
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 28260
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 28260
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 28260
"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 28260
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!


Kathy A - May 31, 2007 10:46:53 am PDT #2699 of 28260
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

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.


Polter-Cow - May 31, 2007 10:52:10 am PDT #2700 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

They stared at each other, lone-wolf amber mating briefly with angelic blue innocence

I...so they're eyefucking? Wow.


le nubian - May 31, 2007 11:08:27 am PDT #2701 of 28260
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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...


Aims - May 31, 2007 11:30:09 am PDT #2702 of 28260
Shit's all sorts of different now.

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.


SuziQ - May 31, 2007 12:12:55 pm PDT #2703 of 28260
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I'm taking HBP with my next week - figure it would be good airplane reading.

The new book comes out on CJ's birthday. He is quite excited - though he has already declared the reading order within the family.