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'The Killer In Me'

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."

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Mr. Broom - Jun 27, 2006 8:15:59 pm PDT #812 of 28095

"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

I've got The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I hope is a good book in the "enjoyable to read" sense, not just in the "gives a brilliant picture of America at a particular time" sense.

It's both, very much. Such an engaging read. I love that damn book.

-t - Jun 27, 2006 8:19:21 pm PDT #813 of 28095

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

OK, I won't go camp out.

P.M. Marc - Jun 27, 2006 8:27:07 pm PDT #814 of 28095

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I fear I found Lot 49 too dated to finish when I finally picked it up last year.

I think I should have read it in the 80s. Or waited another decade.

Kavalier and Clay is a very enjoyable read.

Volans - Jun 27, 2006 9:48:32 pm PDT #815 of 28095

move out and draw fire

I actually didn't enjoy Kavalier and Clay, which I know puts me in the minority here. I never even finished it.

But then, I love the two Eco books you just read, P-C, so YbooktasteMV.

Sophia Brooks - Jun 27, 2006 9:56:10 pm PDT #816 of 28095

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The spoiler, I kid you not, was in the headlines of my local 5:30 news! I don't really care at all, but I guess we must be a really boring news town.

billytea - Jun 27, 2006 9:56:53 pm PDT #817 of 28095

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I actually didn't enjoy Kavalier and Clay, which I know puts me in the minority here. I never even finished it.

Yeah, it didn't do that much for me either. And I greatly enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum.

And right now I'm reading a D&D book on the demons of the Abyss, and a Doctor Who novel. So feel free to ignore my literary pretensions.

Jessica - Jun 28, 2006 4:20:53 am PDT #818 of 28095

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm reading The Algebraist, and so far enjoying it muchly. (I'm not very far in, but I did remember it had been discussed in here briefly before when one of the characters used the word "kerfuffle.")

§ ita § - Jun 28, 2006 4:30:17 am PDT #819 of 28095

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Algebraist I found slow as fuck. Still am, really. I like it, but it's not like Anansi Boys where I not only couldn't wait to get back to the book, but have fond memories of sitting in my car reading it on my lunch hour.

I will finish it, really.

JohnSweden - Jun 28, 2006 4:30:58 am PDT #820 of 28095

I can't even.

I'm reading The Algebraist, and so far enjoying it muchly.

Yay, Banksian lurve! (Which, you know, usually involves glanding yourself to get nasty with some extremely improbable species, but still.)

Jars - Jun 28, 2006 4:41:02 am PDT #821 of 28095

I just finished The Algebraist a few weeks ago, and I started it last summer. I enjoyed it, but just could not get into it until the last 150 pages or so.

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