From the Onion:
Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Susan W. - Jan 25, 2008 10:24:12 am PST #4887 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2008 10:27:10 am PST #4888 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I saw that in the paper version recently! Hee.
"I remember when Phil was a little kid, instead of picking up a book, getting bored, and then throwing it at his sister, he'd actually sit down and read the whole thing," said mother Susan Meyer, who declared she has long given up trying to explain her son's unusual hobby. "At the time, we thought it was just a phase he was going through. I guess we were wrong."
beth b - Jan 25, 2008 11:53:22 am PST #4889 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Well. it looks like my blog is going to be quoted on LibraryThing's buzz page. I love it when people think I am amusing. Because I think I very funny, but not enough people seem to understand what's so funny.
blog post [link]
Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2008 12:04:35 pm PST #4890 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Neat!
beth b - Jan 25, 2008 12:37:58 pm PST #4891 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
thanks, I am inordinately happy about this
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2008 6:15:57 pm PST #4892 of 28343
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Actually - one please, Please, PLEASE! NO HBC as Alice. No. Bad Tim. No biscuit.
She might make a decent Queen, though.
hippocampus - Jan 26, 2008 5:15:47 am PST #4893 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
NO HBC as Alice. No. Bad Tim. No biscuit.
this. zomg. she would make a fantastic queen.
>> And Dictionary of the Khazars
LOVE!
which version did you have ?
And Borges. Who apparently is one of Karl Rove's favorite authors (hah!)
Love the Book of Sand. Rove? really? Boggles. Maybe he just likes the titles?
Gaarder presents this as a translation of a work he somehow found by pure chance, translated...
Don't forget Marquez - who has his narrator act as a reporter in some of his short stories.
Oh, and if I'm going to lay out my full geek - Milton... Paradise Lost was dictated to him by an angel ('cept for the point where he refers to himself in the first person. whoops. blind-ass.).
Jessica - Jan 26, 2008 5:19:28 am PST #4894 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think I have the female version. (I'd check, but the shelf it's on requires a ladder.)
hippocampus - Jan 26, 2008 5:31:42 am PST #4895 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
btw Jessica, check your comments.
The spine has a different color jewel - red or blue, I think.
Steph L. - Jan 26, 2008 10:10:29 am PST #4896 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just finished The Golden Compass (hadn't read it before, have not seen the movie), and I was *riveted* for the entire last half of the book. Wow.
I disremember -- were people here saying that the next 2 aren't as good? And if they aren't, can you say why without spoiling the plot?