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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."
A reading of Gabriel Fournier's The Eclipse Of Infinity reveals that the new science-fiction novel makes more than 80 separate references to "quantum flux," a vaguely defined force the author uses to advance the plot, resolve conflict as needed, and account for dozens of glaring inconsistencies.
So it's a book about flobotanum?
I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention in this thread that I am currently reading Moby Dick.
Ooh. How is it? Most of what I know about Moby Dick I learned from MC Lars. (thanks, P-C!)
I'm really enjoying it. It's a very dense book, though, which is why I couldn't finish it in Canada - it's just impossible to read in a room full of other people.
I am currently reading The Thirteenth Tale. I'm over halfway through and have been wanting to just quit. It's not really doing it for me like it ought to. I normally love stories about stories, and I enjoyed the books this book reminds me of, but I can't get into it. All the characters annoy me, and I don't think I really care about Vida Winter's demented childhood. Although I think I've just figured out the Big Twist and am mildly curious to see how it plays out and whether it really matters. I'm reading quickly now since I just want to know if anything cool awaits me at the end; I am not getting as lost in the prose as the author wants me to. Only 140 pages to go! I can do this!
How is it? Most of what I know about Moby Dick I learned from MC Lars. (thanks, P-C!)
Heh. I really liked it, actually. And I think I liked the interstitial whaling parts more than the actual book. "The Whiteness of the Whale" was awesome.
I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention in this thread that I am currently reading Moby Dick.
Yay! It's such a great book. (After he finished it, Melville wrote Hawthorne, "I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.")
(After he finished it, Melville wrote Hawthorne, "I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.")
That quote was the basis of the poet Charles Olson's lengthy study of Moby Dick, attributing a gnostic interpretation to Melville, with the whale as the demiurge.
I spot this evil is the Lamb.
attributing a gnostic interpretation to Melville, with the whale as the demiurge.
Proving only that Moby Dick can be all things to all people.