Tep's read and post would have me re-reading right now if I weren't in the middle of re-reading Dune already. But I think one jargon-heavy major sci-fi epic at a time is all my brain can handle.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
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."
Jessica - Apr 29, 2009 5:37:56 pm PDT #9064 of 28406
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DavidS - Apr 30, 2009 3:36:19 pm PDT #9065 of 28406
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Stephen Fry's podcast on language is erudite, funny and totally absorbing.
His three W's are: Waugh, Wodehouse and Wilde.
But he also goes into linguistics and the pleasure of words and an anti-prescriptivist rant. (While acknowledging how he has to fight his own instinct for pedantry.)
Beverly - Apr 30, 2009 7:26:42 pm PDT #9066 of 28406
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I, apparently, am Stephen Fry.
DavidS - May 01, 2009 5:14:08 pm PDT #9067 of 28406
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Barb - May 02, 2009 5:34:43 am PDT #9068 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
More Austen knock-offs. Now she's a member of the vampire resistance fighting the French. Because... well, yeah, I have no farkin' clue.
Janet Mullany's THE IMMORTAL JANE AUSTEN, a humorous novel about Jane Austen in Regency England who joins the vampire resistance in Bath when England is invaded by French forces, to May Chen at Harper, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal,
Calli - May 02, 2009 6:26:15 am PDT #9069 of 28406
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
More Austen knock-offs. Now she's a member of the vampire resistance fighting the French.
I'd probably check that out of the library, at least.
Jesse - May 04, 2009 3:07:12 am PDT #9070 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I started reading Revolutionary Road (never saw the movie), and it's just ugh. I want to smack them and make them grow up. (Which I realize is kind of ironic, given that their misery seems to be 90% caused by them doing what they think "grown ups" should do...) Will anything happen later in the book to change this, or should I just stop reading?
Barb - May 04, 2009 4:03:24 am PDT #9071 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
It's not a happy book in the slightest, Jesse, and the ending is devastating.
The book is a tremendous reflection of its time, but yeah, it's a hard book in terms of wanting to smack the protags.
Jesse - May 04, 2009 4:37:10 am PDT #9072 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I don't need to reflect on those times in that way. OK, onward and upward!
Consuela - May 04, 2009 4:58:34 am PDT #9073 of 28406
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And that is why I didn't want to watch the movie, and why I stopped watching Mad Men after 2 episodes.
I might have jury duty this afternoon. Cross your fingers that they let me read! (Last time I had jury duty I made it all the way to voir dire and they didn't let you read while you waited in the courtroom...)