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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."
Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!
Yes! I just got my copy a few days ago. Such an interesting world. i wish it had a map included.
I really enjoyed the Baroque Cycle a lot, and it made me want to go back an re-read Cryptonomicon. It'll probably be a while though, those big loafs of book are hard to pick up again.
I would just like to state that I am forty pages from the end of The Name of the Rose, which is farther than many people who have begun the book have gotten, I am told.
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me. I like seeing how much Latin I can recall.
I tried to read Foucault's Pendulum many years ago, but gave it up. Course, this was in college, when my brilliant pre-reading strategy for any halfway philosopical text was to smoke some pot, read, and wait for flashes of enlightenment. Strangely enough, this strategy made me hungry rather than transcendent.
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me.
It's taken me longer than I anticipated. All the papal politics both bore and confuse me.
I have Foucault's Pendulum ready to start next, but I'm afraid. It seems like it might be a wee bit more exciting, though.
I found Foucault's Pendulum to be rougher going than Name of the Rose, although I liked it immensely. I'm a medieval fangirl, particularly the high weirdness that was the Church, so I was comfortable in the Rose world, but modern Italian politics and Italians were terra incognita to me. I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.
I read Eliot's The Wasteland at the same time I read Foucault's Pendulum, and pot would've helped with both.
One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.
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I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.
(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)
Hey, did you know LMB is coming out with a new book in a new series this fall? [link] (Thank to erinaceous for the heads up.)