Yep, Pix beat me to Lysistrata.
I can't overstate just how much of my literary education came from seeking out the dirty bits. Don't these people get how badly they're shooting themselves in the foot when they Think Of The Children?
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
amych - May 21, 2008 9:29:05 am PDT #5858 of 28359
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jesse - May 21, 2008 9:29:54 am PDT #5859 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dude, my high school performed Lysistrata the year before I started. All the guys stuffed their pants.
Hayden - May 21, 2008 10:07:08 am PDT #5860 of 28359
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I was disappointed in "Men and Cartoons"
I didn't love it, either, but I figured it was worth a buck.
erikaj - May 21, 2008 10:35:52 am PDT #5861 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, totally. I didn't mean to say that. A lot of gimmicks, though, iirc.
Laga - May 21, 2008 11:25:13 am PDT #5862 of 28359
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Odd that I'm most familiar with the nonfiction reading list when I don't really think of myself as a non-fiction reader. I've read three books by Krakauer, two by Sedaris (Although I think neither of those listed) and I've read Running with Scissors.
I didn't like A Confederacy of Dunces but I'm willing to give it another try. I didn't see why it was considered such a great work, and I wondered whether it would have been published at all had the author not killed himself. Then it got a pulitzer, so what do I know? Neuromancer was so long ago I've forgotten most of it and I haven't read the others. If I have time today I'll stop by my library and see if they have a copy of Poisonwood Bible.
Gris - May 21, 2008 4:35:36 pm PDT #5863 of 28359
Hey. New board.
Hamlet, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Angels in America, and possibly Kindred and Death of a Salesman.
I like this list. Though I actually was not a huge fan of Their Eyes Were Watching God. The rest of the list, though - pretty great. And pretty close to my senior year English class, though we did Our Town for our play instead of Death of a Salesman, and skipped Angels in America. We added some Faulkner (The Bear, a novella I believe) and Gatsby.
Pix - May 21, 2008 6:51:21 pm PDT #5864 of 28359
The status is NOT quo.
Cataloguing all of the books in the house, a philosophical question is raised: Exactly how many copies of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare does one couple need?
megan walker - May 21, 2008 6:53:36 pm PDT #5865 of 28359
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
More importantly, you're cataloguing things without me?!?
::cries and cries::
Pix - May 21, 2008 7:00:00 pm PDT #5866 of 28359
The status is NOT quo.
Oh just you wait until you see this new toy. It is EVIL.
Delicious Library lets you use your iSight to read barcodes! ND and I had to get our own accounts since we're both so darned possessive of our books, of course. I've scanned just under 400 so far.
This is entirely Omnis' fault.
amych - May 22, 2008 2:52:47 am PDT #5867 of 28359
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Exactly how many copies of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare does one couple need?
All of them?