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We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
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."
erikaj - Jun 10, 2006 12:56:40 pm PDT #660 of 28095
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2006 7:32:00 pm PDT #661 of 28095
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 28095
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 28095
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 28095
"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 28095
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 28095
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.
flea - Jun 12, 2006 9:29:35 am PDT #667 of 28095
information libertarian
Wow, I'd forgotten there were two phrases that have become enduring ones in 10 lines there. Also, I think I've only read that in standardized spelling. "Supream" indeed!
Hayden - Jun 12, 2006 9:32:58 am PDT #668 of 28095
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yeah! I like "Sovran," too.
Strix - Jun 14, 2006 7:43:36 pm PDT #669 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So I splurged today and bought the new Jacqueline Carey book. Thank God, it was nothing like Banewreaker, which was so boring I didn't even read it twice OR buy the sequel.
I was sucked into it quite happily. It sets up Imriel as a independent character -- lots of internal conflict, but well done. I don't find him as compelling a character as Phedre, but I liked it.