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You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Ginger - Jun 07, 2006 3:04:43 pm PDT #622 of 28061

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Why have I never realized that those two E.B. Whites were the same person?

Also essayist, influential New Yorker columnist and co-author with James Thurber of the hysterical Is Sex Necessary?

Sheryl - Jun 07, 2006 3:52:43 pm PDT #623 of 28061

Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Terry Pratchett has written YA and childrens' books in the Discworld universe, in addition to the regular novels.

-t - Jun 07, 2006 4:10:07 pm PDT #624 of 28061

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And YA books not in the Discworld universe.

Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2006 4:11:03 pm PDT #625 of 28061

Herding cats for fun

Alice Hoffman wrote a few YA books too, I believe (is too lazy to check).

Volans - Jun 07, 2006 8:25:20 pm PDT #626 of 28061

move out and draw fire

Right there with ya, Kathy.

Bookmarked "Portrait of Jennie"...but I like P-C's plot. I'm a total sucker for people going into paintings. There's a bit in one of The Dark is Rising books where Will goes into a photograph of an archaelogical dig to get a thing, and that may be my favorite image in a book ever.

I loved Hardy in high school. Voluntarily read all of them, except Jude. Went back to read Jude in my 20s and could not stand it.

That actually happened with me and a lot of authors...it's one of the reasons I think I became a completely different person in college.

Kate P. - Jun 08, 2006 6:30:30 am PDT #627 of 28061

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Angela Carter wrote adult novels, a number of essays and pieces of literary criticism, and several books for children. Jeanette Winterson writes mostly novels for adults, but she also has a children's book and a new YA novel coming out later this month, about which I am tentatively excited. (Speaking of which, has anyone here read her latest novel, Lighthousekeeping ? Is it any good? I really didn't like the one before that, but I'm tempted to give this one a try, since she used to be one of my very favorite authors.)

aurelia - Jun 08, 2006 8:32:18 am PDT #628 of 28061

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Gregory Maguire has the Hamlet Chronicles series for children, which I'm pretty sure started before Wicked came out.

Mr. Broom - Jun 08, 2006 3:49:36 pm PDT #629 of 28061

"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.

Which is, pardon my editorial sneer, running the gamut of fiction.

(reads too much Language Log)

Kathy A - Jun 08, 2006 4:01:32 pm PDT #630 of 28061

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I just discovered Language Log (and bookmarked it) yesterday! Found it by following a link at Positive Anymore's blog, which I found through a Google search. Love reading people who are as language-obsessed as I am.

Mr. Broom - Jun 08, 2006 5:06:20 pm PDT #631 of 28061

And who despise Dan Brown as much as I do.

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