Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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."


megan walker - Sep 26, 2008 9:25:29 am PDT #7557 of 28736
"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 28736
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 28736
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 28736
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

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 28736
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 28736
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 28736
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.


Fay - Sep 27, 2008 6:17:41 am PDT #7564 of 28736
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I tried to read Gone with the Wind but never got very far. I had the impression that the love triangle was a bit like the one in Wuthering Heights? But I may be off base there?


Sophia Brooks - Sep 27, 2008 7:27:24 am PDT #7565 of 28736
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

It is a bit like Wuthering Heights, but the Rhett (healthcliff) is more of a wastrel who we find out is secretly good than a good young man who turns rather nasty because of circumstances. Ashley/Linton maps pretty well though/


Typo Boy - Sep 27, 2008 7:53:50 am PDT #7566 of 28736
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.

I have to correct an error where I apparently accidentally got two drafts of the same paragraph so entangled they are practically having sex. I've spotted examples of this before in other people's writing. I'm curious: is it common enough error to have a formal name?