Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

'Get It Done'


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."


Hayden - May 09, 2008 10:46:31 am PDT #5755 of 28352
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Read The Education of Henry Adams. He has a lot to say about how Jacksonian Democracy was bringing about the end of civilization.

I've never read this. I think I'm going to have to.

(I'll use any excuse to talk about Henry Adams, but he was particularly horrified by populism.)

The late-19th century populist movement? I'll use any excuse to talk about that, but instead of derailing conversation, I'll ask: have you read Larry Goodwyn's The Populist Moment?


Ginger - May 09, 2008 10:59:39 am PDT #5756 of 28352
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm always gratified to see the Education up there at #1 in the Modern Library top 100 nonfiction books list.

I haven't read that, but it looks interesting. I'll add it to the list. Late 19th century American history is my special obsession.

One of the conceits of The Education of Henry Adams is that Adams is analyzing why he, the grandson and great-grandson of presidents, was not president himself. He uses that idea to talk about the shift in American politics from Eastern aristocracy to populism.


Polter-Cow - May 09, 2008 11:01:00 am PDT #5757 of 28352
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

You know another guy who should have been president but bafflingly was not? Henry Clay.


Hayden - May 09, 2008 11:22:35 am PDT #5758 of 28352
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Late 19th century American history is my special obsession.

I'm actually working on a novel set in the late 19th century. One of the main characters is a lecturer/recruiter for the Farmers' Alliance, which later turned into the Populist Party.

He uses that idea to talk about the shift in American politics from Eastern aristocracy to populism

Gotcha, that's the general democratic populism, not the specific populists.


§ ita § - May 09, 2008 3:43:23 pm PDT #5759 of 28352
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Actually, I'm sure it is, for some people.

::raises hand::

Hey, they were popular, weren't they? I always got the impression the books did a decent job of supporting the movies.

I like those covers out of context. In context I want more excitement and violence.


amych - May 09, 2008 3:47:40 pm PDT #5760 of 28352
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I'm actually working on a novel set in the late 19th century.

O, RLY?

One of the main characters is a lecturer/recruiter for the Farmers' Alliance, which later turned into the Populist Party.

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.


Hayden - May 10, 2008 6:32:21 pm PDT #5761 of 28352
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Boy, are you going to be disappointed when you realize that my newsletter mostly consists of incredibly long lists detailing my nicknames for my cat.


Steph L. - May 13, 2008 5:59:38 am PDT #5762 of 28352
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Huh. It's like the Gossip Girl books, but about Christian teens.

Part of me wants to read it, to see what it's like.


Hil R. - May 13, 2008 6:33:25 am PDT #5763 of 28352
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Huh. The threatening to "out" someone as a Christian seems odd. I mean, when I was in high school and college, it was not being Christian that was weird.


brenda m - May 13, 2008 6:37:25 am PDT #5764 of 28352
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I suppose it depends on your definitions - being nominally Christian is certainly the norm, but I suspect that being highly observant or a member of one of the more fundamentalist sects would be less so at most colleges.