Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.

'Bushwhacked'


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."


JZ - Sep 26, 2007 8:33:52 am PDT #3973 of 28212
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I agree one zillion percent with jz.

Awww! ::dances around the office::


erikaj - Sep 26, 2007 9:03:06 am PDT #3974 of 28212
Always Anti-fascist!

Fortress of Solitude rocked my socks, but "You're making my side look stupid. Get off my side." No, wait. Noo Yawk: "Get off my side, you fucking fuck."ETA: That was to Essay Man, not JZ.


Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2007 1:40:08 pm PDT #3975 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I finished American Gods last night. I was afraid it would be another "really like," but it turns out I loved it.


Strix - Sep 26, 2007 2:02:11 pm PDT #3976 of 28212
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, I loved The Dark Is Rising series, but I think it's becauseI read it as a kid, and it (and other books) are the reason I have such an interest in Celtic mythology and Arthurian legends.

I can't read it objectively; it's always a nostalgia read.

You know, I don't remember a huge amount of my childood and teen years vividly, so much to the extent that I have occasionaly wondered about memory repression/alien abduction/Satanic cult abuse (kidding! kinda!) but I think it's because I spent so much of my childhood out of body, in some other reality brought to me by books.


DebetEsse - Sep 26, 2007 2:32:00 pm PDT #3977 of 28212
Woe to the fucking wicked.

You, too, Erin? Not on the Dark Is Rising stuff, but on the lack of childhood memory.

I'm almost done with Storm Front. Harry Dresden is made of win.

P-C, now you need to read Anasi Boys! I do love American Gods, though. I will re-read right before (or, perhaps on) my Great American Road Trip that I swear will really truly happen someday.


Atropa - Sep 26, 2007 2:34:29 pm PDT #3978 of 28212
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

You, too, Erin? Not on the Dark Is Rising stuff, but on the lack of childhood memory.

Same here. I mean, I have very clear memories of some stuff from childhood, but a lot of it is a haze of books I dove into.


Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2007 2:40:31 pm PDT #3979 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

P-C, now you need to read Anasi Boys!

Yep! I shoved another book ahead of it in the queue, but it's getting read soon.


§ ita § - Sep 26, 2007 2:54:11 pm PDT #3980 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In fact, trauma’s never overcome. That’s what defines it.

So PTSD does exist, but it can't be cured?


Susan W. - Sep 26, 2007 3:46:55 pm PDT #3981 of 28212
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

If Jane Austen wrote Star Trek


Strix - Sep 26, 2007 4:51:36 pm PDT #3982 of 28212
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Yeah, it's weird, isn't it? Like, my mom and dad got REMARRIED (to each other) when I was 12 after being divorced for 2 years...and I remember NOTHING of it. Nothing.

That's the nonmemory that weirds me out the most. I know my mom wore a red suit to the service, but that's because it hung in her closet.

I remember about a total of 4 hours of that whole fricking year: the shuttle explosion, finding the box set of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series in the TAG room, being chastised by the TAG teacher for reading an inappropriate Trivial Pursuit question aloud (hey, I didn't KNOW what a prophylactic was) and reading Morgan Llewellen's book Epona in the toilet stall during lunch hour. It had a gold foil cover, and I could peel the gold foil off. Also, horses and Cerunnos sex. Rigatona said "He took me DRY" and shuddered.

...that's it. 7th grade. What I remember of a WHOLE YEAR.

Now I really kinda want to find a copy of that book and read it. It's been years since I thought of it.