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.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
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 10, 2006 7:35:36 am PDT #638 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:40:10 am PDT #639 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 7:42:15 am PDT #640 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:51:02 am PDT #641 of 28061
move out and draw fire
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.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:53:02 am PDT #642 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:56:09 am PDT #643 of 28061
move out and draw fire
t groan
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2006 7:57:45 am PDT #644 of 28061
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:59:30 am PDT #645 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)
Jesse - Jun 10, 2006 8:02:05 am PDT #646 of 28061
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.)
Betsy HP - Jun 10, 2006 8:04:19 am PDT #647 of 28061
If I only had a brain...
I'm afraid I've been incredibly eeeeh about all her non-SF books. Here's hoping this isn't another fantasy.