It's a mixture of Stardust and Coraline, so of course I'm going to find it perfect.
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Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'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."
lisah - Jun 16, 2008 9:47:39 am PDT #6205 of 28370
Punishingly Intricate
Miracleman - Jun 16, 2008 9:48:54 am PDT #6206 of 28370
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I won't spoil you, but I will say that Dr. Seuss
I think you mean Theodore Geisel, good sir.
I think I choose to acknowledge the Great Man's chosen nom de plume as his constant moniker as He Himself obviously desired.
Speak thus to me again, varlet, and you shall face me on the field of battle!
Atropa - Jun 16, 2008 9:48:57 am PDT #6207 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That man really must dislike speaking engagements. His fee is $50K for one night. Plus first class airfare
I suspect it's more that he has NO free time, and the high fee is to keep his schedule as clear as it possibly can be.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2008 9:50:34 am PDT #6208 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's a mixture of Stardust and Coraline, so of course I'm going to find it perfect.
Hm. Now I am worried. Because I was somewhat underwhelmed by both those books, although I liked them okay. I prefer American Gods and Anansi Boys, or even Neverwhere. I'm hot-and-lukewarm when it comes to Gaiman.
Pix - Jun 16, 2008 9:51:10 am PDT #6209 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
I suspect it's more that he has NO free time, and the high fee is to keep his schedule as clear as it possibly can be.Yep, that's what I figured. I still cried and cried. The speaker series coordinator dangled a very shiny bauble in front of me and then snatched it away.
Atropa - Jun 16, 2008 9:53:25 am PDT #6210 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Now I am worried. Because I was somewhat underwhelmed by both those books, although I liked them okay. I prefer American Gods and Anansi Boys, or even Neverwhere. I'm hot-and-lukewarm when it comes to Gaiman.
Yeah, then The Graveyard Book may not be to your taste. It isn't like American Gods at all. When I said it was a love note to Ray Bradbury, I wasn't kidding.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2008 9:58:09 am PDT #6211 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I also haven't read much Ray Bradbury. I think all I've read is "All Summer in a Day." I recall wanting to read Something Wicked This Way Comes, but I'm not sure whether I ever checked it out, or whether I tried to start and didn't finish, or what happened, really. I know I held the book in my hands and everything.
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2008 10:00:59 am PDT #6212 of 28370
brillig
Bradbury has a very cool book called "Zen and (in?) the Art of Writing"--a title he hated--and there's a chilling essay about his sources of inspiration. His description of the overgrown gorge outside of the town he grew up gives me goose bumps.
It's too bad the world has changed so that boys (and girls) can no longer head out their doors and terrify themselves with what they imagine is in the woods. Instead of wonderful books of imagination, we get true crime.
Toddson - Jun 16, 2008 10:08:10 am PDT #6213 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
we get true crime and abridged/bowlderized classics that have had all the conflict, beauty, and drama stripped out
Hayden - Jun 16, 2008 10:11:33 am PDT #6214 of 28370
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Bartelby the Scrivener I always got, but that's because I was an absurdist/existentialist fan from a very young age, and Herman was ahead of the curve with that one.
You should try The Confidence-Man sometime. It reads more like late-60s John Barth than the work of a writer in the late 1850s.