I am reading Hands of the Emperor and enjoying it but got to a part that I thought was maybe 85% done and looked down and realized I was only 25% through. This is a long book!
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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."
meara - Nov 11, 2021 5:30:33 pm PST #27165 of 28074
-t - Nov 11, 2021 7:17:03 pm PST #27166 of 28074
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have read Empire of Sand! A while ago so details are fuzzy, but I certainly liked it very much.
Hands of the Emperor is hella long. I would have been more reluctant to start it, probably, if I had realized that before starting, especially if I was carrying around an actual thick paper book, so pretty glad I didn’t check that going in tbh
Consuela - Nov 13, 2021 6:39:45 pm PST #27167 of 28074
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
This is a long book!
It really is, but I admit that I enjoyed it a lot.
I'm trying to read Justine by Lawrence Durrell for book club, but it's a bit too much for me. Very literary and lots of bullshit about the sex lives of incomprehensible women. As if that's the only thing of interest about them. I'm not sure I'm gonna finish this.
Jesse - Nov 13, 2021 7:17:39 pm PST #27168 of 28074
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Did you watch The Durrells in Corfu? I haven't read any of his work, but I've heard enough that it seems like it would hilarious in the context of the character on the show.
Consuela - Nov 14, 2021 7:24:35 am PST #27169 of 28074
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I saw an episode, I think. Those books were written by Lawrence Durrell's brother, who clearly had a sense of humor. I don't think Lawrence did...
dcp - Nov 14, 2021 7:30:22 am PST #27170 of 28074
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Oh, agreed. I discovered Gerald Durrell's books when I was in middle school and they were a huge influence on me. Then in high school I found out that Lawrence Durrell actually *had* published, went looking for The Alexandria Quartet, found Justine and hated it. Never tried it again, never tried the other three.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2021 11:32:20 am PST #27171 of 28074
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Larry's just a total tool poseur artiste on the show, which adds up, coming from his younger brother's writing.
dcp - Nov 14, 2021 12:35:49 pm PST #27172 of 28074
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
In Gerald Durrell's book My Family and Other Animals he describes Larry as "...designed by Providence to go through life like a small blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences."
My 11-year-old self had never heard of "unctuousness," but "curling up cat-like" made enough sense to me to go on with, and I looked up the word later.
Toddson - Nov 15, 2021 6:13:04 am PST #27173 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I remember reading Gerald Durrell's books back in my teens and laughing over them. I tried reading one of the Alexandria Quartet (my parents had all four) but didn't get it - either I was too young or there really wasn't much of a point to it. I believe his books are still in print.
Cashmere - Nov 15, 2021 9:14:34 am PST #27174 of 28074
Now tagless for your comfort.
I enjoyed Addie LaRue but I was sort of mad about the ending. I stuck with the audiobook on that one and the narrator has a lovely voice. Very Addie.
New Montague Sibling book coming out tomorrow! Shipwrecks and Scandal! It's the Goblin!
I am trying to read at least a few books from the National Book Award list so I got All that She Carried and The Legend of Auntie Po (which I LOVED).