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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 28067

"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 28067

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 28067

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 28067

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 28067

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 28067

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 28067

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

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 28067

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 28067

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 28067

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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