One thing I remember from college is that there was one passage in Suetonius about Tiberius that no one except Robert Graves would translate ... I read it and promptly wished I hadn't. No - I won't talk about it (shudder).
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 - Jul 16, 2007 6:49:21 am PDT #3131 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
DavidS - Jul 16, 2007 6:58:11 am PDT #3132 of 28195
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ummm, isn't Robert Graves really a bad example for this point? Nobody reads "I Claudius"?
Also "I, Claudius" not so much about WWI.
Toddson - Jul 16, 2007 7:04:26 am PDT #3133 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read THE BOOK - I meant to try to make it last, but I just couldn't stop reading. I laughed a lot, I sniffled a little, did some vigorous head-nodding. sigh ... I wish there were more.
Dear author, a lot of the book was a love letter to your internet communities - the people who've become the family of your heart, the people who "get" you in ways your birth family never have. It made me love my Buffistas more than ever. I hope you know that we love you back.
megan walker - Jul 16, 2007 7:04:46 am PDT #3134 of 28195
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Nobody reads "I Claudius"
I read it, but only because I loved the mini-series so much.
brenda m - Jul 16, 2007 7:20:42 am PDT #3135 of 28195
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
And then it was all moot because the BookClub Thread which we had at the time became the no-whitefont home for HP6 discussion ( Wolfram "The Buffista Book Club: Isn't the Point of Computers to Replace Books?" Aug 7, 2005 8:01:35 pm PDT), which I personally thought was a great idea.
I'd be up for reopening that thread for a while, if people wanted to. (Or having the discussion here - I don't care either way.) But if people think it might be easier.
JenP - Jul 16, 2007 7:23:03 am PDT #3136 of 28195
What timing... I was just coming in to see where and how people would be discussing HP7. I don't actually have useful input, just looking forward to it.
Fred Pete - Jul 16, 2007 7:35:10 am PDT #3137 of 28195
Ann, that's a ferret.
Also "I, Claudius" not so much about WWI.
Graves's WWI memoir was Good-Bye to All That. Which I read for a college class in English history.
-t - Jul 16, 2007 7:54:25 am PDT #3138 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I must admit, what WWI literature I've read was for history classes. Good stuff that I'm glad I read, though.
Toddson - Jul 16, 2007 8:12:29 am PDT #3139 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Robin, I saw your post about the Shetterley-Bull tour - I like both of them, her especially. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be coming east. sigh.
Nilly - Jul 16, 2007 8:18:33 am PDT #3140 of 28195
Swouncing
I'd be up for reopening that thread for a while, if people wanted to.
That's quite a good idea, IMHO.
We already have a thread, which was already used for HP6. Discussions there could be without any sort of whitefont, while here people could still talk about other books without the need to wade through dozens upon dozens of whitefonted (or black-and-white artistic forms) posts.