I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.

Spike ,'Chosen'


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."


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 24, 2009 10:33:43 pm PDT #9032 of 28406
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Things Fall Apart and I believe that was when I discovered The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Beautiful novels! I particularly love Things Fall Apart.

Persuasion seems to be the suggestion for re-discovering Austen. I'll give it a go.


Fay - Apr 25, 2009 4:01:29 am PDT #9033 of 28406
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

It's basically Cinderella, if she'd made a bad call and been obliged to live with it.

::hugs Persuasion::

So, Seska - belated Welcome Aboard! How did you come to find us, mate?


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 25, 2009 4:17:56 am PDT #9034 of 28406
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

How did you come to find us, mate?

I told the story on Natter yesterday - it's not interesting though. Used to lurk, didn't for a while, got reminded of this place when I was bemoaning lack of places to 'do' fandom nowadays.

So I should really go post about Dollhouse and do some fandom then...


Steph L. - Apr 25, 2009 4:42:12 am PDT #9035 of 28406
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

It's weird about Austen -- I've really enjoyed the movie adaptations that I've seen, but I cannot read the books. The minutiae drove me absolutely batshit in text, but was absorbed nicely into the worlds of the movies.

Henry James made me pull out a read pen and edit out all the repetitive language.

Oh, Henry James. You and Faulkner make my head hurt with the long long long long-ass convoluted sentenced.


Amy - Apr 25, 2009 4:50:33 am PDT #9036 of 28406
Because books.

The minutiae drove me absolutely batshit in text, but was absorbed nicely into the worlds of the movies.

This, so very much. Sense and Sensibility is one of my favorite movies ever, but I cannot get through the book to save my life.


Ginger - Apr 25, 2009 9:58:36 am PDT #9037 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

You and Faulkner make my head hurt with the long long long long-ass convoluted sentenced.

Yes, but Faulkner's three-page sentences are things of beauty and James' are drivel.


askye - Apr 25, 2009 10:24:33 am PDT #9038 of 28406
Thrive to spite them

I'm another who can't get into Austen. I've tried. I think I've managed to get through 4 chapters of Emma, but that's taken a decade or more.

Now I love George Eliot, I read Silas Marner at some point, maybe for Brit Lit and then one summer I read Middlemarch at the beach. It was a few years ago when I went and stayed at the beach for 3 weeks, I'd go sit outside on the beach and read. My copy of Middlemarch still smells faintly of sunblock. This edition has lots of footnotes and I think without them I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it as much.

Maybe if I had footnotes for Austen I could get a better handle on it.


Ginger - Apr 25, 2009 10:27:00 am PDT #9039 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Get a Norton Critical Edition, askye. You'll have all the footnotes you want and then some.


Polter-Cow - Apr 25, 2009 2:37:32 pm PDT #9040 of 28406
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I just discovered one of my favorite short stories from when I was a kid was written by Will Shetterly. I feel dirty.


Hil R. - Apr 26, 2009 6:01:06 pm PDT #9041 of 28406
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I don't think I've ever read anything by Henry James. (I took three English courses in college, and two of them were specifically focused on female writers.)

On another topic, when did English and American accents start getting really different? I'm reading a book published in 1889 and set around that same time, and an English boy and an American girl meet on a train, and he thinks she's English because of her "rosy complexion," and they talk a little, and then he asks her if she's English, and she says that no, she's American. At the beginning of this scene, I assumed that, as soon as he heard her speak, he would have figured out that she wasn't English.