I had to brag about my online shopping skillz somewhere!
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 8:46:15 am PDT #8960 of 28706
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Atropa - Apr 24, 2009 11:23:04 am PDT #8961 of 28706
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sooo, P&P&Zombies. I'm about halfway through it, and have been giggling a lot. How faithful is it to the original novel? Um, I don't know. I've never read the original.
waits for a whole flock of you to revive from fainting
What? All I read as a child/young adult/teen was SF, fantasy, and horror. P&P was exactly the sort of book I avoided if at all possible. Yes, I promise to read the original P&P once I'm done with the zombie re-mix.
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 11:29:03 am PDT #8962 of 28706
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was an English major and didn't read any Austen until I was in my mid-30s.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 24, 2009 11:34:28 am PDT #8963 of 28706
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I was an English major and didn't read any Austen until I was in my mid-30s.
English was my undergraduate degree, too, and I have read exactly two Austen novels. By the second, I'd worked out that they were all the same, and I was done.
Thomas Hardy and the Brontes (mostly Emily) I could read forever.
Amy - Apr 24, 2009 11:36:26 am PDT #8964 of 28706
Because books.
I hadn't read any Austen till college, and even then I've only ever made it through Emma, which I do love, and most of of Pride and Prejudice. I love her stories and characters, but her style is just too dated for me.
Thomas Hardy and the Brontes (mostly Emily) I could read forever.
::sits next to Seska::
Dana - Apr 24, 2009 11:36:40 am PDT #8965 of 28706
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Thomas Hardy
t hisses, throws tomatoes
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 11:38:28 am PDT #8966 of 28706
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Joins Dana in the hissing and throwing, which I did do to Tess. God, that girl's whining got to be waaay too much for me--I just wanted to smack her and say, "Get over it!"
Of course, I feel the same way when I have to watch Gone with the Wind--Scarlett drives me bonkers.
Ginger - Apr 24, 2009 11:47:31 am PDT #8967 of 28706
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thomas Hardy deserves something stronger than tomatoes.
Sue - Apr 24, 2009 11:48:09 am PDT #8968 of 28706
hip deep in pie
Thomas Hardy deserves something stronger than tomatoes.
Tinned tomatoes?
Ginger - Apr 24, 2009 11:50:43 am PDT #8969 of 28706
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tinned tomatoes?
Maybe the giant HRI (hotel, restaurant and institution) size.