When I worked at the bookstore people would try to bring reading material into the bathrooms there, which is just too icky. Luckily there are alarms, so most of the time, we could stop them.
Just call me the computer whisperer.
Willow ,'Lessons'
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."
sj - Sep 27, 2007 6:21:53 pm PDT #4054 of 28222
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Glamcookie - Sep 28, 2007 6:52:27 am PDT #4055 of 28222
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'm going to booktalk Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer this morning and I haven't read it yet. I looked at the description on Amazon so I have some info. Any details anyone can add to "sell" the book to teenage boys?
sumi - Sep 28, 2007 6:57:25 am PDT #4056 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Well, there is danger and harrowing death. Complete with dying phonecalls to a beloved wife all the way in New Zealand.
Also, terrible frostbite.
Incredible stupidity and uh. . . yeah, that's all I remember.
-t - Sep 28, 2007 7:08:03 am PDT #4057 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It convinced me to never try mountain climbing, but I can't remember any details.
t /failing to be helpful
Ginger - Sep 28, 2007 7:09:03 am PDT #4058 of 28222
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's also a remarkable rescue of someone given up for dead. Lots of adventure. Lots of altitude sickness. Lots of "the people who do this are completely psycho." It certainly has discussion material. What would you go through to achieve a goal? What goal would you give up to save someone else's life? Is being able to talk to your wife on a satellite phone when both she and you know you are doomed a good thing?
sumi - Sep 28, 2007 7:10:43 am PDT #4059 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Also - discussion of how Everest has been environmentally compromised by all the trips up there now. How the popularity of climbing Everest has added to the danger because the window of opportunity is so small.
Glamcookie - Sep 28, 2007 7:12:07 am PDT #4060 of 28222
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Great details, guys! Thanks so much!
Kate P. - Sep 28, 2007 7:15:47 am PDT #4061 of 28222
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
It's also really gripping and a pretty quick read, if that helps!
Ginger - Sep 28, 2007 7:21:27 am PDT #4062 of 28222
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's also some discussion of how the sherpas get to the top all the time but never get credit and how guiding idiot climbers has become their main source of income.
megan walker - Sep 28, 2007 7:25:04 am PDT #4063 of 28222
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's also really gripping and a pretty quick read, if that helps!
This. I loved it.
It convinced me to never try mountain climbing
And definitely this.
Also, it has a "rich bitch" character that you could be catty about.