I'm about 90 pages into Foucault's Pendulum. Most of my reading time is on the train or right before bed, but I'm having trouble with this one if there are any distractions or if I'm tired.
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
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."
aurelia - Jun 10, 2006 11:07:48 am PDT #657 of 28061
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jars - Jun 10, 2006 11:08:32 am PDT #658 of 28061
I loved Name of the Rose when I read it, and I just recently read Baudolino, which was a lot of fun. Haven't gotten around to Foucault's Pendulum.
Nicklas - Jun 10, 2006 12:01:41 pm PDT #659 of 28061
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
I'm trying to come up with authors who wrote in many genres, or for both children and adults, all under the same name.
Not sure about if he ever written something marketed as YA, but it'd be really hard to pinpoint Jonathan Lethem to a certain genre.
erikaj - Jun 10, 2006 12:56:40 pm PDT #660 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
wrod.
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2006 7:32:00 pm PDT #661 of 28061
brillig
I've read Rose twice, and I've got a couple of Eco's essays that I really love. He's got a gorgeous snarky sense of humor.
Hayden - Jun 10, 2006 7:55:09 pm PDT #662 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I loved Foucault's Pendulum, Cryptonomicon, and the Baroque Cycle.
beth b - Jun 10, 2006 8:50:51 pm PDT #663 of 28061
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ummm.. are you sure you are not my DH , corwood?
Nicklas - Jun 11, 2006 4:04:29 am PDT #664 of 28061
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
I loved Foucault's Pendulum, Cryptonomicon, and the Baroque Cycle.
Doesn't everyone? Weird.
Jessica - Jun 12, 2006 8:47:27 am PDT #665 of 28061
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Hee -- Slate has commissioned pulp covers for classic novels. They're great!
Hayden - Jun 12, 2006 9:22:59 am PDT #666 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
ummm.. are you sure you are not my DH , corwood?
Lemme check my ID.
EDIT: Hey, Post of the Beast!
Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
Said then the lost Arch Angel, this the seat
That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since hee
Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid
What shall be right: fardest from him is best
Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream
Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then hee
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.