the aria used in Fifth Element
I was so happy with that until they decided to go techno with it.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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."
Connie Neil - Jun 21, 2008 11:25:18 am PDT #6553 of 28379
brillig
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.
beth b - Jun 21, 2008 4:03:07 pm PDT #6558 of 28379
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
the title said new classics - so that's where I got the word classics
Sue - Jun 21, 2008 4:13:52 pm PDT #6559 of 28379
hip deep in pie
I think it's a combination of popular and prize winners. I doubt Oscar Wao would be on there if it didn't win the Pulitizer. It also seems to be a representative novel from a popular/influential writer from the time period. Why Goblet of Fire and not any of the other Harry Books. (Why Goblet of Fire anyway?) Underworld by Don DeLillo, but not White Noise? Is using A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again for David Foster Wallace a total admisison that almost nobody has read Infinite Jest? On Beauty for Zadie Smith but not White Teeth?
Kat - Jun 21, 2008 6:10:06 pm PDT #6560 of 28379
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I started Infinite Jest but egads, never finished. Yuck.
Sue - Jun 21, 2008 6:13:51 pm PDT #6561 of 28379
hip deep in pie
I started Infinite Jest but egads, never finished. Yuck.
Oh me too.
erikaj - Jun 21, 2008 9:11:54 pm PDT #6562 of 28379
Always Anti-fascist!
There were parts I thought were quite good, but it is not All That enough for 1000 pages.(Very few things are.) And I know I missed the ultimate Capital-P-type Point too, although I got the whole entertainment=addiction thing I sort of see his thinking there, but not all *that* much since I'm sitting around on a Buffy board on a Saturday night and all.(And were it not for this board I might need to fasten theses on the lowest halves of doors or something like that, so it's not like the board is robbing me of worshipping time or cancer-curing time.)