I got it from Katie on LJ.
Asshole Leper Hero
Seriously. And he's writing MORE books in that series.
My god...he's gonna do the whole speech.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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."
Dana - Oct 20, 2008 1:41:13 pm PDT #7804 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Glamcookie - Oct 20, 2008 1:41:17 pm PDT #7805 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
Does everybody who would want such a thing know about The Haunted Looking Glass? Ghost stories chosen and illustrated by Edward Gorey.
SQUEE! I did not know! Adds to Amazon list!
DavidS - Oct 20, 2008 1:44:25 pm PDT #7806 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mary Sue Gets A Dragon is too accurate to even be humorous. It just is.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 20, 2008 1:52:26 pm PDT #7807 of 28414
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I actually avoided everything except Piers Anthony. My mother bought me the Stephen Donaldson books and I could not get through them, same with Dune. I am pretty sure I read Anne McCaffery, but I don't remember them. Of course, I was too busy reading about Jondalar's giant woman-maker, and of course, the Erica Jong. My mom recently confessed that she would have censored the Erica Jong if she had know, but she has just now gotten around to reading them in her retirement, and I am 35.
Laga - Oct 20, 2008 2:57:21 pm PDT #7808 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I don't recall Dragon on a Pedestal being porny. Did I miss something?
Jessica - Oct 20, 2008 2:57:32 pm PDT #7809 of 28414
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh my. They are ALL perfect.
[I even love the Dune one in spite of thinking that, actually, the first 4 are all pretty damn good. And honestly, when I was fourteen, I even liked the last two because fourteen year-olds tend not to be too picky about books with that much sex in them. It was only upon rereading them as an adult that I said "Hey wait a minute, this soft-core porn is self indulgent crap!.")
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2008 5:22:06 pm PDT #7810 of 28414
brillig
I still have the Eddings Sparhawk books, they do interesting things with religion and politics in those two series. And women get to kick some butt.
hippocampus - Oct 20, 2008 10:46:57 pm PDT #7811 of 28414
not your mom's socks.
love the adolescent reading habits link. And am building up to quite a long post about that top eleven most influential poems list. David, you are spot on about the academe vs beats split. But I'm more curious about how they defined 'influential'. Awful lot of good work out there to choose from.
My list of poets who most influenced me (probably only temporarily accurate) would include Bishop, Elliot, Pound, Moore, Rukeyser, Oppen, Berryman, Levis, Ferlingetti, (iPhone ate a couple here) Plath, Roethke, Ai, Szymborska, Achmatova, (sp), Koumanyaka, Transtromer, Heaney, and Charles Wright. Not all of those would make the popular cannon cut and several span the century, but there it is. What about you? What are yours?
Fay - Oct 20, 2008 11:00:21 pm PDT #7812 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Me personally? Eliot, GM Hopkins, Blake, Kathleen Jamie, Tennyson, Tony Harrison, John Donne, Wilfred Owen. Shakespeare, obviously.
hippocampus - Oct 20, 2008 11:05:53 pm PDT #7813 of 28414
not your mom's socks.
oomg hopkins.
Love. With Carrion Comfort being the big love.
Didn't mean to sound like a blowhard, btw. Pedant, sure. But not bore.