Well, seriously - isn't that one of the best opening lines ever?
And another, we should mostly know, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
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."
Toddson - Nov 30, 2021 12:08:26 pm PST #27196 of 28072
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Steph L. - Nov 30, 2021 12:13:17 pm PST #27197 of 28072
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
Little Women! ("...grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.") I re-read that almost every year.
-t - Nov 30, 2021 4:41:07 pm PST #27198 of 28072
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dear work
I need to take the rest of the week off to read The Expanse.
Love -t
hippocampus - Nov 30, 2021 6:08:45 pm PST #27199 of 28072
not your mom's socks.
Dear ~t
Request Granted.
Totally not a forged signature for work
Consuela - Nov 30, 2021 10:02:40 pm PST #27200 of 28072
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he nearly deserved it.
That said, my favorite opening line is probably: It is not given to every young girl to enter the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent, and return to her homeland a virgin.
Jessica - Dec 01, 2021 7:01:34 am PST #27201 of 28072
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I need to take the rest of the week off to read The Expanse.
I started listening this morning and it hit me that the last time there was a new Expanse, I had an hourlong commute, so a 20-hour book was maybe 2 weeks of dedicated listening time. Now that my commute is the 15 second walk from my kitchen to my desk, I'm going to need to *make time* to listen, which I guess means my house is going to be incredibly clean this weekend since it's too cold to do yard work.
(See also Outlander 9, which is *50* hours long and I am really struggling to make myself want to care about. All I remember about book 8 is that the time travel shenanigans went BONKERS and a lot of random side characters were getting POV chapters all of a sudden. But the audiobook is on my phone now so I guess I'll get around to it eventually?)
Kalshane - Dec 01, 2021 7:19:59 am PST #27202 of 28072
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
For me it's a tossup between:
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
And:
The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault.
Sadly, I don't remember the opening lines to any true literature. (Edited for formatting)
meara - Dec 01, 2021 7:20:37 am PST #27203 of 28072
I have not read the latest outlander but likewise have no memory of what happened except I figured all the other POV characters were because Jamie and Claire were like 70 years old by that point and have to die or be boring at some point?
-t - Dec 01, 2021 7:34:21 am PST #27204 of 28072
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hm. I like to tell myself that I can listen to audiobooks while I do something else and thus be productive while consuming books but lately that has not been true. I should try to re-establish the habit although maybe not with something quite so long
Audible has been suggesting I might want to listen to Gravity’s Rainbow and Ulysses and mostly I’m all “where did they get that idea?” but part of me is curious what the experience would be like
Toddson - Dec 01, 2021 8:10:02 am PST #27205 of 28072
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I gave up on Outlander after the ... fourth? ... book. They just go on too long for me ... and I think I got confused about when they were, where they were, and who were those characters. That said, I can't deal with audiobooks; not sure why, but they just don't work for me.