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

Discussion Threads

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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Kat - Jun 20, 2008 6:09:03 pm PDT #6548 of 28379

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I actually think Wallace Stevens "Blackbird" series is goth, and not just because of the word "black." Is there a genre called "Zen Goth?"

I JUST taught that poem in a PD on Tuesday. I can see only two or three in the series of thirteen vignettes that are goth. Like the biblical verse one (Haddam) NSM. But the only thing moving is the eye of the blackbird? maybe. The connecticut glass coach and the equipage, definitely.

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:22:44 pm PDT #6549 of 28379

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Speaking of goth and black birds, Ted Hughes' book Crow is quite goth indeedy.

Jessica - Jun 21, 2008 4:29:05 am PDT #6550 of 28379

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

"Everybody Loves Raymond," totally cyberpunk.

HA.

juliana - Jun 21, 2008 7:48:02 am PDT #6551 of 28379

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Wasn't the aria used in Fifth Element from Lucia di Lammermoor?

It is indeed. (Of course I have it favorited in YouTube - it most awesome.)

hippocampus - Jun 21, 2008 9:48:36 am PDT #6552 of 28379

not your mom's socks.

thank you! I've always wondered about that.

Connie Neil - Jun 21, 2008 11:25:18 am PDT #6553 of 28379

brillig

the aria used in Fifth Element

I was so happy with that until they decided to go techno with it.

sj - Jun 21, 2008 1:43:38 pm PDT #6554 of 28379

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I just saw this on Neil Gaiman's blog, and I thought it might produce some interesting conversation. It's Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 100 most important books since 1983. The list seems kind of random to me. I’ve only read about 10 of the books, but I have a bunch more of them on my shelves.

beth b - Jun 21, 2008 3:10:35 pm PDT #6555 of 28379

oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Looks like classic means popular. I always thought that classic meant -- something that stood the test of time, something that no matter how foreign something was,there would be something you can relate to. Also, it should have some meat to it -- something that causes discussion.Not sure that eat,pray, love or Da vinci Code could pass either of those test.

DebetEsse - Jun 21, 2008 3:37:04 pm PDT #6556 of 28379

Woe to the fucking wicked.

I thought it was "the best reads"

flea - Jun 21, 2008 3:48:01 pm PDT #6557 of 28379

information libertarian

I've read 22 of them, which seems like a lot (considering I don't think I read that much, and especially not much mainstream fiction). There were also a bunch where I've read other books by the author, but not the one they picked.

I think that list was mostly fairly well-received (well-reviewed + sold well) mainstream writing.

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