Oooh! Briony! I loathed her as much as I loathed Nelly Dean.
Jayne: 'Cause I don't know these folks. Don't much care to. Mal: They're whores. Jayne: I'm in.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Steph L. - Sep 05, 2008 9:48:03 am PDT #7294 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2008 9:55:56 am PDT #7295 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just thought of a narrator who's both reliable and unreliable-- Briony in ATONEMENT. The epilogue of the book is just one big WTF when you realize what McEwan did with the narrative.
Oh! Now I want to read it.
Barb - Sep 05, 2008 10:12:43 am PDT #7296 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Oooh! Briony! I loathed her as much as I loathed Nelly Dean.
The phrase that kept running through my head as I read that book was "that little twat." Seriously. I read it out on the flight to San Diego in February and Lewis kept having to put his hand on my leg because it was twitching and bouncing so furiously.
Dana - Sep 05, 2008 11:35:27 am PDT #7297 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"You read such different books! I've heard you recommend to customers titles on everything from early Christianity to the Time Travelers Wife, then science books, and now musical theater?"
I don't really read non-fiction, other than the news.
Toddson - Sep 05, 2008 11:41:37 am PDT #7298 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
so ... no non-fiction at all?
Dana - Sep 05, 2008 11:43:58 am PDT #7299 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Almost none. Occasionally a biography, but...I'm thinking, I'm looking at my shelves...
Steph L. - Sep 05, 2008 12:49:00 pm PDT #7300 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I rarely *buy* non-fiction, but I get it from the library a lot. I mostly buy fiction. And comics. (Which is also fiction, but a specific kind of fiction that I felt deserved its own mention.) (IloveyouBlueBeetle!)
Kathy A - Sep 05, 2008 1:13:23 pm PDT #7301 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I haven't bought fullpriced fiction (that wasn't a paperback romance) in a very long time. I've gotten a few titles from book sales here at work or picked up bargain titles from the bookstore, otherwise, it's all non-fiction for me and my wallet. That American musical theater book was $45 pre-employee discount (which still meant that I paid $35 for it after tax), so it'll probably be my last book purchase for some time.
I'm still buying too many DVD sets, though--just got the Simon Schama History of Britain set at B&N (TV sets are 40% off right now, FYI!), and I bought the Spaced set a month or so ago.
megan walker - Sep 05, 2008 1:19:25 pm PDT #7302 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, I'm selling books these days, not buying. The library is my friend.
Steph L. - Sep 05, 2008 2:53:12 pm PDT #7303 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sample Copywriter: [link]
Caramel Chew: There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.
Now I really want a Caramel Chew.