Today I finally finished The Remains of the Day only about 3 years after I first started it.
Yay! Did you like it?
My brother said Life of Pi was really good. I have considered picking it up one day.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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."
Polter-Cow - Aug 10, 2007 11:16:08 am PDT #3682 of 28200
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
buffysmglover - Aug 10, 2007 11:31:37 am PDT #3683 of 28200
Tim Cox - Buffy: Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog.
Anya (anguished): Oooh, puppy!
Oh, he's on Scrubs. And you wouldn't have to send me a quarter, even if you could. It's a joke...long story. But apparently I could get into the elder stateswoman thing. But I don't mean porn by that.
Ok, Dr. Cox. I love scrubs
askye - Aug 10, 2007 11:37:56 am PDT #3684 of 28200
Thrive to spite them
PC, I'm not sure. Part of the time I felt like Stevens was showing me what's going on in a room, but I was stuck standing behind him, only able to see the back of his head and an occasional glimpse over his shoulder and I knew that he wasn't giving me the whole story but I just couldn't see around him to get what was going on.
Then other times I felt like I could clearly see what was going on and there was Stevens, with his blinders, firmly seeing what he wanted to and I just wanted to shake him and say "Look! Just LOOK! for one second, be curious for one second!"
Polter-Cow - Aug 10, 2007 12:26:37 pm PDT #3685 of 28200
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's what's so great about the book! Oh, Stevens.
Toddson - Aug 10, 2007 12:51:17 pm PDT #3686 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
erika:
But I don't mean porn by that.
Why not?
erikaj - Aug 10, 2007 12:54:42 pm PDT #3687 of 28200
Always Anti-fascist!
Because fifteen will get me twenty-five, that's why not. I'm no J.D. La Rue.
Toddson - Aug 10, 2007 12:57:24 pm PDT #3688 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
But we're on the internet - if you can't have porn here, what's it for?
DavidS - Aug 10, 2007 2:02:59 pm PDT #3689 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was just reading an old interview with Michael Chabon at Onion A.V. It was done right as K&K came out, so he hadn't won the Pulitzer or had a big hit yet.
He was talking about screenwriting and noting that he was basically obliged to supplement his novel writing income with screenwriting. Not just for the Hollywood money, but because his family's insurance came through the screenwriter's guild.
I both admire his innovative finessing of finances and family responsibility, and am slightly depressed by that.
Though I suppose he's made enough money off Kavalier & Klay by now that it's less necessary.
JZ - Aug 10, 2007 3:59:52 pm PDT #3690 of 28200
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Calla, my mom recommends Water for Elephants, which came out last year and should be findable paperback and used and in libraries. I've never read it or even heard of it before, but she wouldn't have recommended it if she didn't think it was at least a decent read, and it's certainly got a ton of positive reviews on Amazon.
Cashmere - Aug 10, 2007 6:39:18 pm PDT #3691 of 28200
Now tagless for your comfort.
Today I finally finished The Remains of the Day only about 3 years after I first started it
Speaking of Kazuo Ishiguro, has anyone here ever read Never Let Me Go?
Interview with Gibson on Salon.