GC, they're all yours. Did you want mine as well since they're YA?
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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."
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 9:42:56 am PDT #7790 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Glamcookie - Oct 17, 2008 10:07:02 am PDT #7791 of 28414
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Oh, hell yes!!! Totally!
DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 12:36:34 pm PDT #7792 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jilli, have you read Tanith Lee's The Secret Books of Paradys?
I glanced at it in the bookstore and the first story was like an elegant marriage of NIN's video for "Perfect Drug" and the Paris section of Interview With A Vampire.
Atropa - Oct 17, 2008 12:43:45 pm PDT #7793 of 28414
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, have you read Tanith Lee's The Secret Books of Paradys
Yep! They're gorgeous. Her Blood Opera series is still my favorite, but the Paradys books are lovely and overwrought in the best sort of way.
DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 12:55:42 pm PDT #7794 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Then you'll like this tidbit from her website:
August 2008
The Blood Opera pours on
A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it.
Atropa - Oct 17, 2008 1:29:23 pm PDT #7795 of 28414
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Blood Opera pours on
A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it.
Yesssssss. I have been WAITING for the 4th book for ages.
Fay - Oct 17, 2008 6:11:52 pm PDT #7796 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Just finished reading The Graveyard Book.
I would say something incisive and telling and reviewish, but mostly I'm in that word-drenched afterglow, where I just want to pet the covers and run lazy fingers up and down the spine. Lovely book.
Gris - Oct 17, 2008 9:41:52 pm PDT #7797 of 28414
Hey. New board.
Rendezvous with Rama is awesome because it's pretty good hard sci-fi that inspired an amazingly terrible set of Future Romance sequels. Which I, of course, devoured in high school. But man was that whole series bad in retrospect.
I'da gotten the Leobowitz one.
As to the poetry list - i'm not much of a poetry connoisseur, but I love me some "Prufrock," so the list is A-Okay in my book. A book that is probably really poorly written.
DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2008 8:09:57 am PDT #7798 of 28414
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Fay, I just finished it within the last week or so and had a very similar reaction.
It also made me want to read Jungle Book, to get more of the parallels.
DavidS - Oct 18, 2008 6:52:03 pm PDT #7799 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does everybody who would want such a thing know about The Haunted Looking Glass? Ghost stories chosen and illustrated by Edward Gorey.