Ooh! I want ALL of them!
I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
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
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.
Ginger - May 25, 2008 5:33:00 pm PDT #5892 of 28359
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are many, many books wanting to be read, and yet I've read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" five or six times. I don't think a recent reading of "Three Men" is necessary; you'll recognize them. Have you read "Gaudy Night?" It's a big part of the book too.
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:43:38 pm PDT #5893 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Have you read "Gaudy Night?" It's a big part of the book too.
No -- Georgette Heyer? I've heard of it, but never read any Heyer. Will my reading of To Say Nothing suffer if I don't read Gaudy Night?
amych - May 25, 2008 5:44:39 pm PDT #5894 of 28359
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Dorothy Sayers
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:58:21 pm PDT #5895 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dorothy Sayers
Wow. I was way out of the ballpark on that one. I can't explain the connection my brain made, that I thought Heyer wrote Gaudy Night.
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 6:01:04 pm PDT #5896 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Okay, despite my complete wrongitude about the author, I *do* recall (er, that is, I hope I recall) that Gaudy Night is a Peter Wimsey novel, right? And that there's actually a series of Peter Wimsey novels?
So if I read Gaudy Night to complement To Say Nothing of the Dog, would I be confused by Gaudy Night, since it's in a series? Or is it the first of the series?