Alley Baba?
Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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."
Typo Boy - Sep 18, 2008 8:48:05 pm PDT #7402 of 28404
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.
Fay - Sep 18, 2008 9:32:39 pm PDT #7403 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Give me the name of character (male) who is bold and foolishly persistent, playful, goofy and klutzy, and needy, attentionwise. And that fit this face
Awww!
Locke Lamora?
Seamus Finnegan?
Billy Liar?
Don Quixote?
Cyrano De Bergerac?
Cap'n Jack Sparrow?
Barb - Sep 19, 2008 2:29:07 am PDT #7404 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, I'm totally loving Cap'n Jack.
And of course, ANIMAL!!!
Fred Pete - Sep 19, 2008 4:55:42 am PDT #7405 of 28404
Ann, that's a ferret.
McIntosh fits the face but doesn't really tie into a literary character.
Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2008 5:50:10 am PDT #7406 of 28404
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.
Travis McCat? I'll some people here have read John D. McDonald's Travis McGee series.
Kate P. - Sep 19, 2008 7:20:58 am PDT #7407 of 28404
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Zaphod?
Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2008 7:23:35 am PDT #7408 of 28404
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.
Zaphod?
If it was my cat, we'd have winner.
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2008 6:53:54 pm PDT #7409 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've been reading Girls of Riyadh. The blurb on the cover says, "Imagine Sex and the City if the city in question were Riyadh," and that's basically it. It's pretty compelling so far. I'm about halfway through right now. It was translated from Arabic, and there are a bunch of places where there are footnotes on cultural things or on Arabic words that didn't really have an English equivalent.
Fay - Sep 19, 2008 8:15:03 pm PDT #7410 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
That sounds fascinating, Hil! I'll keep my eyes peeled for it!
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2008 8:38:41 pm PDT #7411 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It's definitely the rich girls of Riyadh -- they take vacations to Europe and sometimes the US pretty often, and they almost never seem terribly concerned about money.
Also, I've been noticing that, in contrast to most similar-type American and British books that I've read, there are very few descriptions of clothing (aside from wedding dresses and things like that), but the description of someone's makeup can go on for an entire page.
It's written as if it were being sent out, chapter by chapter, to an email list, by an anonymous Saudi girl, with little bits at the beginning of each chapter of the "author's" reactions to what everyone's been saying about it. That was wearing a little thin for a while, but it's starting to pick up again.