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.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
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."
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 4:24:09 pm PDT #7590 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2008 4:36:05 pm PDT #7591 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, that will occupy quite a few ER visits! Thanks.
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 4:40:40 pm PDT #7592 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They're all books I love.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2008 4:44:25 pm PDT #7593 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I seem to remember being very disturbed by Pudd'nhead Wilson as a child--does it have conjoined twins in it?
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2008 4:50:12 pm PDT #7594 of 28404
brillig
Jane Austen is also on gutenberg, as is Bronte, if you're into such.
Ginger - Sep 29, 2008 5:14:43 pm PDT #7595 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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.
Consuela - Sep 29, 2008 6:40:12 pm PDT #7596 of 28404
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2008 8:30:11 pm PDT #7597 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, if the conjoined twins are separate, I can download that too.
Fay - Sep 30, 2008 3:04:51 am PDT #7598 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I hesitate to ask, since it's probably a no-brainer ("Why yes, Fay, in Jamaica we read it in Nursery, you fool!"), but have you read Mary Seacole's autobiography The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands? Because that's the last book I read online, and I loved the hell out of it.
Toddson - Sep 30, 2008 3:50:02 am PDT #7599 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"