Tinned tomatoes?
Maybe the giant HRI (hotel, restaurant and institution) size.
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
Willow ,'Help'
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."
Ginger - Apr 24, 2009 11:50:43 am PDT #8969 of 28413
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dana - Apr 24, 2009 11:51:13 am PDT #8970 of 28413
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Don't forget, I think tomatoes are pretty gross.
Twice, once in high school and once in grad school, I had to read Jude the Obscure. I didn't make it through either time. About 50 pages from the end, it's all too ridiculous.
Ginger - Apr 24, 2009 11:54:54 am PDT #8971 of 28413
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
About 50 pages from the end, it's all too ridiculous.
Did you get as far as young Jude killing the little girls and hanging himself? The only book I had to read that I hated more was Ethan Frome.
Dana - Apr 24, 2009 11:56:45 am PDT #8972 of 28413
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I did, I did. Since I was being tested on it and all that, I read a summary.
Ethan Frome, on the other hand, I liked. I like Wharton. I don't mind people whose lives are inevitably going to suck. It's just the ridiculous pile of coincidences and stuff that happen in Hardy.
Ginger - Apr 24, 2009 11:58:21 am PDT #8973 of 28413
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have an upper limit on life suckage.
flea - Apr 24, 2009 11:59:45 am PDT #8974 of 28413
information libertarian
Every time I re-read Jane Austen she gets funnier. I think she's best appreciated once one is into one's 30s.
Sue - Apr 24, 2009 12:00:18 pm PDT #8975 of 28413
hip deep in pie
I never read Jude, but I did see the grim movie version starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet. I had forgotten about it until now.
Ginger - Apr 24, 2009 12:01:25 pm PDT #8976 of 28413
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think she's best appreciated once one is into one's 30s.
I feel that way about Melville.
Amy - Apr 24, 2009 12:12:03 pm PDT #8977 of 28413
Because books.
I love Wharton but I *hated* Ethan Frome. Ick.
I have a soft spot for Hardy. And Tess.
::puts on tomato shield and hides behind Seska::
JZ - Apr 24, 2009 12:18:17 pm PDT #8978 of 28413
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I love Austen, all the Brontë sisters, Hardy and Wharton. Please pass all your tomatoes to me.
I have read exactly two Austen novels. By the second, I'd worked out that they were all the same, and I was done.
Oh, heavens, no! (I mean, welcome, Seska!) There are definite similarities between the novels she wrote as a very young woman (P&P, S&S, and Northanger Abbey-- though that one's just sassy and snarky enough to almost belong with her rude and delicious juvenilia, Love & Freindship and The History of England) and very different similarities between the older, more emotionally painful ones she wrote much closer to her death (Emma, Mansfield Park and Persuasion), but even the similarities are all about tone and language and energy, not incidents or characters (Jane Bennet and Elinor Dashwood are a little similar, and Wickham and Willoughby more so, but their relationships with their sisters, their families, their beloveds--all so utterly different).