JZ, I just read that too! Isn't it brilliant?
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Kate P. - Feb 20, 2008 9:25:59 am PST #5065 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
JZ - Feb 20, 2008 9:39:47 am PST #5066 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Utterly so.
Weirdest conversation with my mother as a result of that book:
Mom: It taught me so much about what it means for a boy to become a man in our culture. I was sobbing by the end.
Me: Wow. I really need to read it.
Mom: And I learned some slang, too! I never knew before that boys call their erections "boners."
Me: ......
Mom: I thought I knew what they meant from the context, but I had to look it up to make sure.
Me: ::hurls self from moving car::
Susan W. - Feb 20, 2008 9:40:19 am PST #5067 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
That's actually kinda cute...
erikaj - Feb 20, 2008 10:32:14 am PST #5068 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
Love him...making him laugh was one of my life's highlights.(I went to his reading in a pow wow t-shirt that he thought was funny.) Glad to hear he's at work again.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2008 10:51:22 am PST #5069 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know, my favourite euphemism for the youknow is "unsponsored wood." I about bust a gut laughing when I first heard that term.
Pix - Feb 20, 2008 10:59:44 am PST #5070 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
I just finished The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (I think that's it), by Junot Diaz, and I definitely recommend it, but only if you speak at least some spanish and at least some geek. There's a lot of each, and you can kind of slide by assuming what he means by things, but it goes a lot easier if you actually know what he's talking about.I just met him! He was one of the speakers at the Key West Literary Conference, and he addressed the geek/Spanish thing directly. He said that one of the reasons that he wrote the book the way he did was to force the reader into one essential aspect of the immigrant experience: never quite understanding everything going on around you. He wanted to create some level of discomfort with the narrative. Fascinating speaker (cute, too).
Jesse - Feb 20, 2008 11:01:16 am PST #5071 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He said that one of the reasons that he wrote the book the way he did was to force the reader into one essential aspect of the immigrant experience: never quite understanding everything going on around you. He wanted to create some level of discomfort with the narrative.
Oh, that's really cool.
OH! How do you pronounce Junot? That's been killing me.
lisah - Feb 20, 2008 11:01:32 am PST #5072 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
Fascinating speaker (cute, too).
I've had a crush on him for ages. Literary. I haven't read the new book yet. Must get in on that!
Jesse - Feb 20, 2008 11:02:29 am PST #5073 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In other news not really about the book, I was reading the acknowledgements like I always do (what, I think I'm going to know someone?) and one of the last names was, in fact, someone I went to high school with. Hilarious.
lisah - Feb 20, 2008 11:04:46 am PST #5074 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
I was reading the acknowledgements like I always do (what, I think I'm going to know someone?)
I do this too! Just in case. Because the world is very small.