What others have said about the Riverside. It has everything, including enough annotations to understand everything (including the off-color jokes), but it isn't something you can slide into a pocket.
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
Fred Pete - Aug 01, 2007 4:46:56 pm PDT #3560 of 28199
Ann, that's a ferret.
DebetEsse - Aug 01, 2007 6:05:01 pm PDT #3561 of 28199
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Cool.
Thanks, guys
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2007 7:44:32 pm PDT #3562 of 28199
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just forced myself to finish A Pale View of Hills. How could the author of my default favorite novel (The Remains of the Day) have written such a dull, flat, pointless first novel? That was still critically acclaimed? I now wonder what the hell I saw in TROTD. Surely, my tastes have become more refined since I read that book three times and loved it in high school, right?
Maybe I just don't care about Japan. Lost in Translation didn't do it for me either.
Volans - Aug 02, 2007 8:10:54 am PDT #3563 of 28199
move out and draw fire
I have the paperback copies of the Shakespeare plays I like, with my marginalia and production notes and stuff, in addition to the Riverside.
It's sort of my LOTR approach - the Big Red Book for the shelf, and the cheap paperbacks for carrying, taking notes, and reading.
-t - Aug 02, 2007 9:12:43 am PDT #3564 of 28199
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo-hoo! My Vampire People just arrived!
askye - Aug 03, 2007 7:01:20 am PDT #3565 of 28199
Thrive to spite them
There is a poll on baord usage being discussed, please go here for more information - msbelle "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Aug 3, 2007 7:52:20 am PDT
Tod - Aug 04, 2007 11:56:17 am PDT #3566 of 28199
You smelled the smell?
Hey DebetEsse- The best Shakespeare set, if you can find it, is the out of print Everyman edition in three volumes. Look for a used copy. They are portable and readable, very convenient but nicer than paperbacks.
beth b - Aug 05, 2007 6:49:30 pm PDT #3567 of 28199
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
So my sister was over - we talked a bit about WTVPPLTL She bought it but hasn't started it. However, the review that said you can't meet friends on the intenet now, she thought was , well, wrong. she only found her tribe on the net in the last year or so.
Typo Boy - Aug 06, 2007 8:37:46 pm PDT #3568 of 28199
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
A professor of literature I know who is also interested in the history of cooking, recommends the following:
Egg Pies, Moss Cakes, and Pigeons Like Puffins DiMarco, Vincent
According to the blurb: "In this comprehensive and historically rich study, author Vincent DiMarco shares three original, never before published cookery manuscripts from eighteenth century England. Taken from the author's private collection, the manuscripts contain over five hundred recipes in their original form, but DiMarco further enhances the text with expert commentary and revitalizes one hundred of the recipes for today's kitchen with modern instructions."
Not my personal area of interest, but I suspect it may appeal to some Buffistas. The link is to a $6.00 ebook version; there is a printed version out there as well.
Laga - Aug 06, 2007 8:39:34 pm PDT #3569 of 28199
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Is he the guy I heard on NPR talking about what it was like to eat one of those songbirds with the towel over your head?