Love Roddy Doyle. And not just because we both like soul, although that was the beginning.
I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!
Anya ,'Storyteller'
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."
erikaj - Jun 07, 2006 12:47:02 pm PDT #607 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
erikaj - Jun 07, 2006 12:47:08 pm PDT #608 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
billytea - Jun 07, 2006 12:47:28 pm PDT #609 of 28061
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I don't know if this counts for what you're after, but Iris Murdoch wrote both novels and books on philosophy.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 12:48:16 pm PDT #610 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You know, you guys really make me want to read some Hardy to see what all the bloody fuss is about.
Okay, it's time to play Guess the Book! I read a book in ninth grade for English class. All I remember is that it was about a man who fell in love with a woman in a painting, and I think he ended up going inside the painting, maybe? And there was water involved, like an ocean. And I seem to recall the word "Alhambra." It may have been the name of the bar where he talked about this woman to the bartender.
I randomly recalled it the other day, and now it's bugging me that I don't remember what book it is.
Jars - Jun 07, 2006 12:52:10 pm PDT #611 of 28061
Love Roddy Doyle.
Me too! I must've read Paddy Clark, ha ha ha a hundred times when I was a teenager. I havent looked at it in years though. Maybe it's time to root it out again now I've made it through my backlog of books.
JZ - Jun 07, 2006 12:55:19 pm PDT #612 of 28061
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
P-C, could it be Portrait of Jennie?
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:02:27 pm PDT #613 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
YES THAT IS TOTALLY WHAT IT IS OMG.
And I knew the main character's name started with an E: Eben!
meara - Jun 07, 2006 1:04:42 pm PDT #614 of 28061
AmyLiz, Sharon Shinn has written science fiction (very romancey ones, at that) and YA books...but the YA books aren't NOT SF, they're just shelved under YA.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:08:44 pm PDT #615 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm impressed that you got it, JZ, considering I got so much of the basic plot wrong.
JZ - Jun 07, 2006 1:23:07 pm PDT #616 of 28061
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Well "Guy falls in love with a woman in a painting" is plenty enough to narrow it down. Plus, the film version was just on TMC a few weeks ago (well worth checking out, BTW), so my hazy memories of gobbling the print version down as an 8th grade bibliomaniac had been very recently refreshed.