Free!
That's my favorite!
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
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 23, 2007 2:10:48 pm PDT #3026 of 28195
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
JoeCrow - Jun 24, 2007 7:20:22 am PDT #3027 of 28195
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Far as I can tell, the most definitive piece of "steampunk" lit out there is The Difference Engine, by Gibson and Sterling. Essentially an alt-history novel about what mighta happened if Charles Babbage had created a computer revolution a couple hundred years early. G&S may have deliberately started the literary movement; it's the sort of thing that both of them would enjoy doing, for different reasons.
But for comics, Girl Genius is probably as iconic as The Difference Engine.
As for the
If you don't like what I like, you're stupid;
if you like what I don't like you're an asshole.dealie, have y'all seen this?
Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2007 7:34:43 am PDT #3028 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, that is brilliant and awesome.
Gris - Jun 24, 2007 5:31:20 pm PDT #3029 of 28195
Hey. New board.
Today, I scanned/entered all of my books into Delicious Library. They're uploading into my librarything account as we speak.
I am disappointed that i only have 220 books in my apartment. It does not feel like nearly a large enough number, and yet I don't have nearly enough shelf space for the hundreds more I want to have.
Toddson - Jun 25, 2007 10:39:37 am PDT #3030 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This seemed literary-appropriate - it's official! librarians are hot!
Toddson - Jun 25, 2007 12:01:45 pm PDT #3031 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Did I kill the thread? or the hot librarians made everyone quietly shelve themselves in their bunks?
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2007 12:33:53 pm PDT #3032 of 28195
brillig
No reference to Giles? Mr. Uber-Librarian himself? Sadly lacking.
DavidS - Jun 25, 2007 1:09:00 pm PDT #3033 of 28195
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I saw some books at lunch that piqued my curiosity. Anybody read them and got a review?
The new Chabon book The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
Tracey Chevalier's new novel about Wm. Blake. Burning Bright.
Kiki Strike
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2007 1:17:15 pm PDT #3034 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The new Chabon book The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
Saw a positive review of this in Entertainment Weekly. Looked interesting in an alternate-history kind of way. Plus, detectiving! Chabon read up on a whole bunch of noir authors like Chandler and Hammett before writing the novel.
Hayden - Jun 25, 2007 2:53:14 pm PDT #3035 of 28195
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
NY Times Book Review also had a positive review of the new Chabon. I know Mrs. Industries is super-excited. What's Kiki Strike? The delivery service business getting extra-oppressive? Or has she joined the military?