Also, The Physics of the Buffyverse has a cool cover.
Nextdoor!Teacher bought me that at a science conference.
So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.
Faith ,'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."
Emily - Jun 07, 2007 9:04:35 pm PDT #2799 of 28176
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
-t - Jun 07, 2007 9:20:44 pm PDT #2800 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read Physics of the Buffyverse last month. It was not what I wanted it to be, but once I got over that it was pretty enjoyable and explained some stuff I didn't understand before.
I've got World War Z out from the library, but I've been afraid to start reading it right before bed as I don't want to be lying in the dark trying to work out how zombie-proof my house is instead of sleeping.
Consuela - Jun 07, 2007 9:23:14 pm PDT #2801 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I couldn't read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ( and me an environmentalist!), but I loved An American Childhood and thought The Living was quite impressive. I don't recall being bogged down by the prose in either of those two.
hippocampus - Jun 08, 2007 1:04:06 am PDT #2802 of 28176
not your mom's socks.
It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.
!!! That.
I like Dillard. I don't like thinking 'what an interesting and arresting verb choice for that sentence'. Especially not again and again. What makes teaching and critiquing easier doesn't always make for an enjoyable or enlightening read.
Top 3 favorite writers' writers, anyone? (if you're like me, it depends on the day...) Today, they are probably going to be:
- George Oppen - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Muriel Rukeyser
Katerina Bee - Jun 08, 2007 2:18:44 pm PDT #2803 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
I never did manage to finish Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. And it seemed like the sort of book I would have liked, when I tried to read it in the seventies, the eighties, and once more somewhere around 2000. My eyes would inevitably glaze over and my mind would wander away all befuddled, as if they were being asked to decipher some dense legalese at the bottom of a contract with Satan.
So I gave up. It wasn't as if my semester grade depended upon finishing PaTC.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 2:22:11 pm PDT #2804 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Top three favorite writers off the top of my head... John Irving, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams.
erikaj - Jun 08, 2007 3:59:21 pm PDT #2805 of 28176
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, I have so many... Tom Robbins is one, though. I think it explains a lot about my nature that Robbins is at one end and David Simon's at the other.
-t - Jun 08, 2007 4:06:48 pm PDT #2806 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sometimes I reallly like Robbins and sometimes I really don't. Haven't read his latest because I am afraid of not liking it - that Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates really turned me off.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 6:00:17 pm PDT #2807 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
was that before or after Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas? ('cause I loved that one)
-t - Jun 08, 2007 7:22:57 pm PDT #2808 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
After. I also loved Half Asleep etc.