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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."

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Volans - Jul 18, 2009 11:00:52 am PDT #9640 of 28402
move out and draw fire

Thanks, Bev - we've got the T.H. White, so I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. I have a few of the Tennyson poems in other collections, but I think I'll get that book to add to the Camelot shelf anyway.

I am highly amused that "customers who purchased Idylls of the King also purchased Shane".

DavidS - Jul 18, 2009 12:43:44 pm PDT #9641 of 28402
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

There's a biography about Hope Mirrlees coming out.

Lovely picture - you can see why Virginia Woolf described her as: “her own heroine — capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.”

Jesse - Jul 18, 2009 5:05:39 pm PDT #9642 of 28402
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Thanks to you people, I bought the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo last night. I'd actually given it as a gift, but never read it myself!

Kat - Jul 19, 2009 10:36:55 am PDT #9643 of 28402
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ooooh. Jesse! So enjoyable.

I'm reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle now. Not very far in, but enjoyable enough. Not at the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo level.

Can I also fess up? I find the statistics about abuse at the beginning of each section totally creepy.

Ginger - Jul 19, 2009 2:25:12 pm PDT #9644 of 28402
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

There's a lovely piece about Jack Vance in the NY Times magazine [link]

Volans - Jul 19, 2009 5:02:53 pm PDT #9645 of 28402
move out and draw fire

Thanks for the link, Ginger. I liked Vance even before the NYT called him "the anti-Paul Auster."

I haven't read the whole article; I'll be interested to see if they mention that Gary Gygax based the magic system in D&D on Vance's work.

DavidS - Jul 19, 2009 5:45:33 pm PDT #9646 of 28402
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'll be interested to see if they mention that Gary Gygax based the magic system in D&D on Vance's work.

They do.

I discovered Vance in that magic 12-13 zone with The Dying Earth. One of the most pleasurable and decadent reading experiences you can have at that age.

Toddson - Jul 20, 2009 6:32:07 am PDT #9647 of 28402
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Someone once asked Isaac Asimov when the Golden Age of Science Fiction was. After some thought he replied, "12".

Steph L. - Jul 20, 2009 6:36:20 am PDT #9648 of 28402
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Don't tell Readercon.

(Sorry; I've been sucked into reading the Readercon kerfluffle, and it's just amusing the crap out of me. GRE scores? Seriously?!?)

Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 20, 2009 6:40:06 am PDT #9649 of 28402
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Given that 12 is when I discovered Asimov, I agree with him entirely. (I don't think there's another sci-fi experience that has come close to the first time I encountered the Foundation series.)

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