How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2008 11:30:22 am PDT #6043 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strix - Jun 05, 2008 8:39:48 am PDT #6044 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Um...I MIGHT be wrong...but isn't that what we old folks call a "library?"
Vonnie K - Jun 05, 2008 9:23:39 am PDT #6045 of 28370
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Heh. I think that's why that screenshot made it to a site called "failblog". [link] That site is hilarious.
Laga - Jun 05, 2008 12:52:47 pm PDT #6046 of 28370
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Poisonwood- Oh for goodness sakes the army ants just showed up. I guess in a novel about an extended stay in Africa it was sort of ineveitable but first Indy 4 and now this? Is the universe trying to tell me to face my fear?
Typo Boy - Jun 05, 2008 5:15:44 pm PDT #6047 of 28370
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I think the original lending libraries were rental services. They were seen as dangerous because they exposed the lower classes to ambitions beyond their station, and dangerous to all because they exposed the all classes to longings beyond propriety. 21st century librarians proudly carry on that tradition.
Shir - Jun 06, 2008 12:37:05 am PDT #6048 of 28370
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Quick question, Buffistas - my dad asked me about a Balzac quote, and none of us can remember where it's from, and I'm uncaffeined (yet) so Google fails me.
"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals--that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him."
Does any of you know where it's from?
Jars - Jun 06, 2008 1:25:25 am PDT #6049 of 28370
Anne W. - Jun 06, 2008 1:58:17 am PDT #6050 of 28370
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Jars, I hope that idea dies a quick and ignominious death.
flea - Jun 06, 2008 2:23:42 am PDT #6051 of 28370
information libertarian
Huh, I kind of thought that many if not most kids books in the US already had some notes about the suggested age/reading level. Not an industry-wide sticker sort of thing, but provided as part of cover copy by the publisher.
And for "early readers" there is a very detailed and very prominently noted staging (pre-reading, then levels 1 2 3 all boldly emblazoned on the wee little baby chapter books.)
DebetEsse - Jun 06, 2008 3:54:34 am PDT #6052 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.
As a teacher, it would be nice if there were content warnings, although, practically speaking, that would be more "advertising" than "warning" in practice.
flea, I think those refer to difficulty of text (I can't imagine a level 3 book having things in it that would upset the parents of a level 1 reader), whereas this idea seems to be very content-related (which putting an age on is ridiculously subjective)