This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


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."


Jon B. - Jun 30, 2006 3:46:28 pm PDT #966 of 28095
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

And, of course, it's one of the books Sawyer is passing the time with on LOST.

It's also used in Donnie Darko (director's cut).


Connie Neil - Jun 30, 2006 4:17:42 pm PDT #967 of 28095
brillig

Another really cool book that gave me delicious chills is "A Night in the Lonesome October," by Roger Zelazny. Jack the Ripper's dog is the narrator. Jack is trying to save the world and has a very good reason for doing what he's doing. Sherlock Holmes is in there, and Lovecraft's world, and a plethora of horror movie stuff.

It's a wonderful book.


Kate P. - Jun 30, 2006 5:20:37 pm PDT #968 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

After reading some of today's conversation, I had a doubletake moment at the library today when a patron asked me to help him locate Watership Down. I wanted so badly to say, "Oh! I was just talking about that book today with the invisible people on the internet!" but I think I just kept it to "Oh, that's a really good book."


Gus - Jun 30, 2006 5:29:32 pm PDT #969 of 28095
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

That person was a pre-Buffista, KateP.

You should have come on to him. The sex would have been epic.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 01, 2006 1:58:18 am PDT #970 of 28095
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Also, Jane Harrocks was in the TV series.

What's really interesting is that John Hurt played Hazel in the movie, but Gen. Woundwart in the show.


Aims - Jul 01, 2006 7:53:40 am PDT #971 of 28095
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Who the hell is Hickory?

One of the farmhands in The Wizard of Oz, as far as I am concerned.

t /all about me


Jars - Jul 01, 2006 1:02:27 pm PDT #972 of 28095

Anyone for a round of golf with a couple of Irish writers?

[link]

Hee!


Nicklas - Jul 02, 2006 9:03:47 am PDT #973 of 28095
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."

Anyone for a round of golf with a couple of Irish writers?

That was excellent.


Gris - Jul 06, 2006 3:42:42 pm PDT #974 of 28095
Hey. New board.

Today's library haul:

The Complete Adventures of Winnie the Pooh because I've never read all of them and feel I simply must.

The Blue Girl and Looking for Alaska because they were both recommended YA fiction on Amazon, and seem to have very different premises (one is fantasy, the other one is... not. I think.)

And, finally:

Foucalt's Pendulum because... you guys were talking about it.

Of course, I'm about 60% of the way through The Mists of Avalon, a depth that has taken me well more than a week to reach, so I may not start any of these for a while. But still. Happy. Books.


Kathy A - Jul 06, 2006 3:50:30 pm PDT #975 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

That reminds me--I have to drop off my books at the library (one was due back on Monday, so I owe 30 cents), and I want to check out Watership Down now!