thanks, I am inordinately happy about this
I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.
Xander ,'Help'
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."
beth b - Jan 25, 2008 12:37:58 pm PST #4891 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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?
Dana - Jan 26, 2008 10:11:13 am PST #4897 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I feel like the plot kind of goes off the rails by the third book, and strains my credulity. I couldn't follow where Pullman went.
Steph L. - Jan 26, 2008 10:15:23 am PST #4898 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So it's worth reading at least the second?
Dana - Jan 26, 2008 10:17:41 am PST #4899 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm way too much of a completist to advise not finishing a trilogy. I think there are other people around who probably liked the series more, and might have stuff to say in its favor.
Consuela - Jan 26, 2008 10:23:18 am PST #4900 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I agree with Dana. I still liked the second one, because it does more world-building and introduces some new characters, but the third one kind of lost me. At some point, I may reread it, but as I recall being utterly confused by the plot and exhausted by dodging Pullman's thematic anvils.