OK, I won't go camp out.
Xander: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster. Giles: Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
'Never Leave 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."
-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
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.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2006 4:49:00 am PDT #822 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Fortunately, I've been getting home so late recently (and waking up early b/c of summer hours) that I can only manage about 20 pages or so before I fall asleep, so a slow read is just about perfect. I think a page-turner might kill me.