I started Infinite Jest but egads, never finished. Yuck.
Oh me too.
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
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."
Sue - Jun 21, 2008 6:13:51 pm PDT #6561 of 28379
hip deep in pie
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.)
Jesse - Jun 22, 2008 7:36:08 am PDT #6563 of 28379
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I read Michael Tolliver Lives yesterday, and it was great to catch up with all the characters, although it felt a little too autobiographical in some respects, which made me wonder about the rest. (For example, see how Maupin met his husband on Wikipedia.) And I really hope Michael went to his mother's funeral.
Typo Boy - Jun 22, 2008 9:43:49 am PDT #6564 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Belatedly, re Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: I always though CQY plots were driven by excessive vampire languidity.
CQY vampire lemming: "Oh this foolish mortal is about to plunge a dagger into my heart. I will languidly move two inches and teach him the error of his ways. OW! that damn dagger only missed my heart by two inches! I'm not dead, but I'm badly injured and it really hurts. Oh well, nobody could have see that coming. I'll let them bury me, brood while I slowly recover, come back to find the villain has killed several people I loved while I was out of commission, and take revenge for this totally unexpected turn of events."
hippocampus - Jun 23, 2008 2:05:30 am PDT #6565 of 28379
not your mom's socks.
neil gaiman's intro to the 10th anniversary edition of Synners needs to be cited here but I can't do it now because argh iPhone. So I'll just tell you all that this is my thinking.
sumi - Jun 23, 2008 3:57:22 am PDT #6566 of 28379
Art Crawl!!!
Has modern life killed the Semi-Colon? - from the Slate.
Typo Boy - Jun 23, 2008 9:39:45 am PDT #6567 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Has modern life killed the Semi-Colon?
Not in my writing; excessive semi-colon use is one of my my major flaws.
Toddson - Jun 23, 2008 9:40:53 am PDT #6568 of 28379
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
so it's only semi-killed?
megan walker - Jun 23, 2008 10:02:43 am PDT #6569 of 28379
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has modern life killed the Semi-Colon?
As Patricia T. O'Conner postulated over 10 years ago:
Maybe it intimidates us; it shouldn't.
Steph L. - Jun 25, 2008 4:53:03 pm PDT #6570 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So, I'm (still) on vacation, in a beach house with The Boy and 13 of his family members, 7 of whom are his nieces and nephews, ranging in age from 10 to 22. One of the teenage boys is a nerdly type who is a computer whiz and works at the local library and organized a school trip to Japan.
After I read this Unshelved strip, I decided that the featured book would be the next thing I got from the library when I got home: [link]
Guess what book nerdly!nephew has with him? And finished today, so that I can read it?
Yup. Talk about synchronicity.
ION, I finished Woman's World, and it made me want to throw things. It's...typical, I suppose, for the type of story that it is, but it still pisses me off HUGELY, because it didn't have to go that way.
And I can explain further when/if anyone else reads it and wants to discuss it.