Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?

Xander ,'Him'


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."


Jessica - Jun 19, 2008 5:54:31 pm PDT #6437 of 28372
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

That's Sterling's pseud

Aha! I did not know this.


Laga - Jun 19, 2008 9:16:14 pm PDT #6438 of 28372
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

what's "metaverse"? Would the Dream Park novels count?


lisah - Jun 20, 2008 4:39:48 am PDT #6439 of 28372
Punishingly Intricate

I think that Oscar Wao is episodic enough that it gets to some of his strengths as a short story writer. But Drown was so much better.

I'll def. have to reread Drown. It's been years and I don't think I own it. I'm actually still loving Oscar Wao. It's slow going only because I'm reading right before bed and I have to sleep. I'm finding it hard to put down though.


Kat - Jun 20, 2008 4:41:23 am PDT #6440 of 28372
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I read Whacked yesterday. No good. But the narrator, up until the last 40 pages, totally reminded me of Kristen (TV writer, sort of obsessed with grisly murders etc).

I was set on starting Thousand Acres, but then I left it at school. Am reading the History of Love instead.


Consuela - Jun 20, 2008 8:03:59 am PDT #6441 of 28372
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Junot Diaz was on the Colbert Report on Wednesday. He was pretty awesome.


DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:32:59 am PDT #6442 of 28372
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Buffistas, just off the top of your respective heads, what would you say are the gothiest poems? Non More Goth.


Hayden - Jun 20, 2008 8:35:00 am PDT #6443 of 28372
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Robert Frost's "Bereft"


DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:40:52 am PDT #6444 of 28372
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Robert Frost's "Bereft"

See now, that's why I poll the people because I wouldn't have thought of that.

More please!


sj - Jun 20, 2008 8:45:18 am PDT #6445 of 28372
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Also, Frost's "Acquainted with the Night".


DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:48:17 am PDT #6446 of 28372
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Robert Frost, ubergoth.

Well, he was born in San Francisco. That's got to count for something.

Is nobody going to pimp for Poe?