I finished Moby Dick last night.
Can I get a "HELL YEAH!"?
SO MANY FREAKING WHALES.
Ah, but they're allegorical whales. Except when they're not.
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
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."
Hayden - Sep 05, 2009 9:49:57 am PDT #9950 of 28385
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Jessica - Sep 05, 2009 9:58:41 am PDT #9951 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, the word "effulgent" is used in this book approximately eighteen-jillion times. Spike would be proud.
sj - Sep 05, 2009 2:09:31 pm PDT #9952 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I finished the third Mercy Thompson book tonight. It creeped me out more than the previous books, but it was a good book. If they ever make a movie or TV show from it, James Marsters should play Ben.
sarameg - Sep 05, 2009 6:13:41 pm PDT #9953 of 28385
I've just finished the Bhutan chapter of Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner, recommended by someone at a party recently. While I didn't have the same sort of revelations there (had some of a different sort), this concept of happiness is grabbing me. Because I'm really happy like I haven't been in a while, and part of his concept so far is that it is about the destination, not just physically, but culturally and that resonates. Liking this book, he's an eyeore like me.
DebetEsse - Sep 06, 2009 8:06:13 am PDT #9954 of 28385
Woe to the fucking wicked.
t sits by Jessica
Allegorical whale holes, my ass.
Once, on Prairie Home Companion, Guy Noir was asking where some villain had found the plans to build the bomb or whatever, and she said that it was hidden in the whaling chapters of Moby Dick. I laughed and laughed.
sumi - Sep 06, 2009 3:16:04 pm PDT #9955 of 28385
Art Crawl!!!
Perhaps Spike's use of the word "effulgent" is due to a heretofore, unexplored influence of Melville on his oeuvre.
-t, which GRRM are you reading?
-t - Sep 06, 2009 3:42:30 pm PDT #9956 of 28385
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A Storm of Swords. My BiL gave me a Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings a couple of weeks ago and I picked up this one when I was done with those. I'm just about finished with it and telling myself sternly to not go find a copy of the next one right away, dammit. My To Be Read pile is not shrinking on its own.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2009 8:11:59 pm PDT #9957 of 28385
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Sep 06, 2009 9:11:17 pm PDT #9958 of 28385
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
you had Lost Boys, which is essentially vampirism as wish fulfillment — it was really the first time you can absolutely take a pin and point to these great vampire moments on celluloid or on video, or in print, whatever, where people really seemed to have looked around and gone, ''What is the downside of this thing again? Hang on, you get to live forever, you get to be absolutely sexually attractive and you don’t have zits... You have magic powers; what you're giving up is daylight.'' And this [sentiment] from people who aren't seeing a lot of daylight anyway. Seems like a very, very good exchange.
Oh, Neil. Let me draw pink sparkly hearts, perhaps with bat wings, around this paragraph.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2009 9:30:20 pm PDT #9959 of 28385
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't you love it? It was my favourite too.