I left early for work today to stop by the library and then completely forgot to do so.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Laga - May 23, 2008 2:20:00 pm PDT #5882 of 28359
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Steph L. - May 23, 2008 3:17:33 pm PDT #5883 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Did you read the alt-text?
But of course!
Laga - May 24, 2008 6:11:41 pm PDT #5884 of 28359
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've got Poisonwood Bible. huh, she just used "irregardless". I wonder if it was a purposeful insight into that particular narrator.
hippocampus - May 25, 2008 1:41:29 am PDT #5885 of 28359
not your mom's socks.
Laga, I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
Jesse - May 25, 2008 4:55:40 pm PDT #5886 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here is how much of a nerd I am: I kind of want the Barrayaran Military Academy t-shirt available here: [link]
Jessica - May 25, 2008 5:01:31 pm PDT #5887 of 28359
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh! I want ALL of them!
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:09:23 pm PDT #5888 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I stopped after The Vor Game, and really need to get back to them.
But I just started To Say Nothing of the Dog today, and am already sucked in. (Though I wonder if I should re-read Three Men in a Boat before I go any further, because although I read it in college, well, that *was* 21 years ago [egad!], and I can't remember one single thing about it.)
What say you all? Re-read Three Men in a Boat? Or press on with To Say Nothing of the Dog?
meara - May 25, 2008 5:11:43 pm PDT #5889 of 28359
Press on! Then re-read Three Men, THEN re-read To Say Nothing!!
Because, um, I've never read Three Men. And still quite enjoyed To Say Nothing. And keep thinking I should read Three Men, and then re-read To Say Nothing, and haven't, yet.
brenda m - May 25, 2008 5:21:08 pm PDT #5890 of 28359
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
What she said.
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:24:26 pm PDT #5891 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I can guarantee that if I read To Say Nothing *first,* and then Three Men, I will NOT re-read To Say Nothing. Not that soon, when there's so many other books wanting to be read.