Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
I recently read The Good Fairies of New York and absolutely loved it.
I didn't love it as much as I expected to, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I mean, I did like it, but everything felt a little distant. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, or something.
standing next to fay. Liked it, just didn't love it.
I'm in the process of loading reading material onto my phone (lo, how far we have come...), and I was looking for some recommendations of texts that would be on gutenberg.org.
Ideas?
Captains Courageous, White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Dracula, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Up from Slavery, Sherlock Holmes and, of course, The Education of Henry Adams.
Well, that will occupy quite a few ER visits! Thanks.
They're all books I love.
I seem to remember being very disturbed by Pudd'nhead Wilson as a child--does it have conjoined twins in it?
Jane Austen is also on gutenberg, as is Bronte, if you're into such.
Twain started writing the book about conjoined twins, but he said the other characters took over the book. He extracted the conjoined twins into a story that's included as an appendix. The seams of the previous story still show in some places. I still like the book, because of the way it plays off doubles, race and public perception.
eta: Also, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a geek.
Also, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a geek
He so is. I just read that a few years ago, and found I liked it more than I expected.