Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness. Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.

'Never Leave Me'


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 - Jun 06, 2007 4:26:03 am PDT #2750 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

erika, Schutz is ... well, I don't know if "sick fucker" is an accurate description, but he's kind of grim. Lots of people die. He's good, but not a ray of sunshine.


lisah - Jun 06, 2007 5:53:45 am PDT #2751 of 28176
Punishingly Intricate

Oh, I love his work. He's like a feral Faulkner.

Genius! I love him too although I haven't read the Road yet. I had to take a break from the post-Apocalypse for a while.


Toddson - Jun 06, 2007 6:07:01 am PDT #2752 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

oh, and for the grammatically inclined (isn't that all of us?) - I was leafing through a book of erotica at Borders and came across a story where the heroine is named Cedilla. Heroes are Asterisk and Apostrophe.


Ginger - Jun 06, 2007 6:08:26 am PDT #2753 of 28176
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I hope the colon doesn't make an appearance.


Toddson - Jun 06, 2007 6:11:06 am PDT #2754 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I think my role on the board has become setting up for comm-worthy posts.


shrift - Jun 06, 2007 6:36:57 am PDT #2755 of 28176
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

The Printers Row Book Fair is this weekend. Anyone going?


Kathy A - Jun 06, 2007 7:06:11 am PDT #2756 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

That place has huge money-suck potential for me, so I'd better avoid it. Damnit. Maybe next year.


shrift - Jun 06, 2007 7:28:57 am PDT #2757 of 28176
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

This is my issue, Kathy. Not to mention that I went on a little shopping spree at Borders last weekend.


Margaret T. - Jun 06, 2007 7:36:00 am PDT #2758 of 28176
Dedicated lurker

Oprah's take on The Road was that it was a wonderful story of father/son love. McCarthy dedicated the book to his young son, and said that he would not have written it if he had not become a father (again) late in life. Oprah didn't deal with the post-apocalyptic idea very much in the interview.

The interview was taped in New Mexico, so McCarthy wasn't exposed to a studio audience. He seemed like a nice guy, dedicated to his writing. Didn't seem to feral in person, despite his writing.


Kathy A - Jun 06, 2007 7:38:07 am PDT #2759 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'm saving my pennies for Harry Potter next month. Oh, and I'll be keeping an eye out for the next Nora Roberts paperback trilogy--she usually puts one out in the beginning of the summer, doesn't she?