'Heart Of Gold'
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."
I love how To Say Nothing of the Dog starts off with everybody in the bombed out cathedral and Ned keeps referring to "Mr. Peabody" as a member of their crew and it isn't until the end of the chapter that it becomes clear that Mr. Peabody is a dog.
How could anybody look at the name "Mr. Peabody" in a book featuring time travel and not realize that he's a dog ?
I can't believe no one's yet mentioned the Griffin & Sabine books
And Dictionary of the Khazars (which Sox and I were recently talking about).
And Borges. Who apparently is one of Karl Rove's favorite authors (hah!)
And Dictionary of the Khazars
LOVE!
Laurie King uses that same conceit for her Mary Russell series.
Didn't need to be said twice.
Do you guys remember what the upperlimit of books you could catalog with a free Library Thing Account?
(I mean to upgrade, but I keep forgetting!)
sumi, 200
Thanks!
Oh! I need to pimp an amazing book. I don't know if any of you are familiar with Janna Levin's work (she's a theoretical physicist whose work focuses on the nature of the universe, black holes, etc.), but she's a lyrical writer. Her web site is here. Anyway, she's known for her academic writing and her nonfiction (such as How the Universe Got Its Spots," which wrestles with the question, "Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big?"), but she recently published an incredible piece of fiction called A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines based on her research about the lives of Kurt Godal and Alan Turing. It's....wow. Beautiful. Fascinating.
She was one of the presenters at the Key West Literary Seminar, and she impressed me with her staggering intellect, not to mention her sense of humor and poise.
I don't like Alice in Wonderland.
Just thought I'd say.