Jesse, wait a little while - it should be back there!
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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 - Nov 26, 2007 9:22:55 am PST #4347 of 28260
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
DebetEsse - Nov 26, 2007 12:20:47 pm PST #4348 of 28260
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Even bigger tingle -- the piece of Roman wall still standing in place near the Tower of London. (It's just outside the nearest Underground station.)
This is me. I happened upon it and went up to touch it. Some people behind me followed suit, but I'm fairly certain they didn't know why.
Glamcookie - Nov 26, 2007 12:24:10 pm PST #4349 of 28260
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
Even bigger tingle -- the piece of Roman wall still standing in place near the Tower of London. (It's just outside the nearest Underground station.)
Hee! We loved this, too [link] See also the Sherlock Holmes excursion also on this page.
Volans - Nov 26, 2007 3:15:54 pm PST #4350 of 28260
move out and draw fire
Poe's grave is a good reading pilgrimage.
I am ashamed to admit that I've mostly done reading pilgrimages for books I haven't read: Somseret Maugham in Thailand, Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim) in Malaysia, Herotodus at Thermopylae and Apostle Paul at Corinth. But these are sort of culture-by-osmosis things, and it's not like I'm totally shallow and more jonesed about seeing the Exorcist stairs, really.
I guess books are more real to me; I always assume that anything I see on screen is faked. Of course, not to the same degree as the DH, who couldn't grok what I find amusing about leaving graffiti to Roskolnikov. He said, "Roskolnikov's more real to me than most of the people I work with."
dcp - Nov 26, 2007 3:21:23 pm PST #4351 of 28260
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
dcp - Nov 26, 2007 3:29:22 pm PST #4352 of 28260
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
The first time we went to Lahore, my Dad made a point of taking me to see Zam-Zammah and the Ajaib-Ghar where Kim starts. I've been to Amritsar and Kulu and Ambala and Saharunpur, but not Lucknow.
flea - Nov 27, 2007 4:07:56 am PST #4353 of 28260
information libertarian
Christmas gift suggestions sought: for my father in law. He is interested in mystery series. He is probably not a crime novel/thriller reader, but would be more likely to like cozy women's sort of mysteries. But I'm worrying that anything I can think of is too, well, girly for a fairly traditional 69 year old man. Any suggestions for mystery series that fit the bill?
Toddson - Nov 27, 2007 4:10:25 am PST #4354 of 28260
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
flea, has he read any of the Laurie R. King Sherlock Holmes series? The first one is "The Beekeeper's Apprentice". It's Holmes after he's retired to, yes, raise bees and he runs into a young woman who naturally has the same sort of observant and deductive mind he does.
Dana - Nov 27, 2007 4:17:39 am PST #4355 of 28260
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series by Alexander McCall Smith?
Ginger - Nov 27, 2007 4:24:56 am PST #4356 of 28260
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Nevada Barr? Kathy Reichs? Sharon McCrumb's ballad books? My Robert Ludlum-loving 65-year-old cousin likes them.The first two have women protagonists, but certainly can't be described as girly. Has he read Robert Parker's Spencer books? They've had their ups and downs as the series has aged, but the first 10 are great. James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux books are wonderfully written.