So... you're saying I should get to reading the copy my brother gave me for Christmas?
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Gris - Jan 06, 2009 4:07:10 am PST #8262 of 28431
Hey. New board.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2009 4:19:04 am PST #8263 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Only if you are a fan of EXTREME AWESOMENESS.
Fair warning, it does take a while to get into. I was engaged by the first 100 pages, and totally in love not long after that, but it's a bit of a steep hill to climb at first, and the language is easily the biggest barrier to entry. It's not that the first 100 pages are bad, but they do require a fair amount of concentration. It's not an easy book. But holy FRACK, is it ever worth it.
Kathy A - Jan 06, 2009 5:35:34 am PST #8264 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I loved Watership Down and seem to recall it having a dictionary either before or after the narrative.
Colbert Report had a WD reference last night that is appropriate here:
"Stephen, you have Watership Down in with your non-fiction books."
"Yeah, so?"
"Stephen, it's about rabbits at war!"
"What's your point?"
Calli - Jan 06, 2009 6:27:14 am PST #8265 of 28431
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have it on good authority that rabbits aren't harmless like everyone supposes.
javachik - Jan 06, 2009 8:40:54 am PST #8266 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
!eeH
Shari_H - Jan 06, 2009 8:45:22 am PST #8267 of 28431
Keep breathing!
By the way, thank you to the Buffistas who were conversing recently about the Vorkosigan books and, unrelatedly, Connie Willis. I have had a happy couple of weeks working my way through several of the former and re-discovering how much I like the latter. (Bellwether was a lot of fun.) So thanks!
Laga - Jan 06, 2009 11:03:36 am PST #8268 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just finished chapter two of The Name of the Wind and I want to marry it and have it's babies. If you aren't seriously hooked by page 25 I could never love you.
Fay - Jan 06, 2009 11:59:27 pm PST #8269 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
beams
Strix - Jan 07, 2009 7:33:50 am PST #8270 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have to admit, I love the more recent Bujold series more than the Vorkosigan books (The Sharing Knife, et al.) But although I have read a lot of scifi, it is not my all time fave genre, so it makes sense that I like the world she created in TSK: Beguilement a bit better.
sumi - Jan 07, 2009 7:37:28 am PST #8271 of 28431
Art Crawl!!!
Have you read the 3rd Sharing Knife book?
(I haven't. . . yet. Paying my humongous library fines will make it more likely that I will read it sooner.)