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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."

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Ginger - Sep 26, 2008 8:36:48 am PDT #7554 of 28404

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

This list is way too skewed for books that I suspect will be forgotten in 50 years.

Any list that doesn't have Sexual Politics or The Awakening is suspect. Other omissions: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Moll Flanders, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Sue - Sep 26, 2008 8:41:59 am PDT #7555 of 28404

hip deep in pie

Jane Eyre was on there. But Emily Dickinson is a huge omission! I guess it was tending towards fiction, but Dorothy Parker was on there, who I think of mostly as a poet and a quipper.

beth b - Sep 26, 2008 8:54:27 am PDT #7556 of 28404

oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

24 books on the women's list

14 on the men's

Gone with the wind you have to read between age 13-and 15 to enjoy.

megan walker - Sep 26, 2008 9:25:29 am PDT #7557 of 28404

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

10 on the men's list. 6 of those were because they were assigned in high school (Rabbit, Run; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heart of Darkness; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Moby Dick; and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold).

sumi - Sep 26, 2008 9:49:05 am PDT #7558 of 28404

Art Crawl!!!

Well, it was a reader submitted list. It makes you wonder who the readers are who submitted book titles.

Hil R. - Sep 26, 2008 9:25:53 pm PDT #7559 of 28404

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Gone with the wind you have to read between age 13-and 15 to enjoy.

Heh. I first read it in sixth grade and loved it. I still go back and reread it every few years -- I don't love the same things that I loved then, but it's still a great story. Plus, I've now got the vocabulary to express exactly why I think Ashley's an idiot, whereas then, I mostly just got irritated without being able to explain why.

erikaj - Sep 26, 2008 10:49:12 pm PDT #7560 of 28404

Always Anti-fascist!

Hil is me, here. Although I don't really think Ashley and Scarlett were ever suited.

Hil R. - Sep 26, 2008 11:15:54 pm PDT #7561 of 28404

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I don't think we were supposed to think Ashley and Scarlett were suited.

Sophia Brooks - Sep 27, 2008 3:12:52 am PDT #7562 of 28404

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think that GWTW is somewhat important to read or see, because Rhett/Scarlett/Ashley seems to be the basis for a lot of love triangles in modern TV. But I am overinvested in the teen soap genre.

Jessica - Sep 27, 2008 5:21:50 am PDT #7563 of 28404

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Rhett/Scarlett/Ashley seems to be the basis for a lot of love triangles in modern TV.

Hee! Joey Potter is no Scarlett O'Hara, but Dawson & Pacey map pretty much perfectly.

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