Reading a book at nearly fifty that blew your mind as a teenager, and finding that it holds up, on every level.
Yeah. So many of mine are no longer even readable.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Betsy HP - Feb 27, 2004 6:56:48 am PST #1068 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Jess M. - Feb 27, 2004 7:01:15 am PST #1069 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect.
Jesse, can I tag this?
erikaj - Feb 27, 2004 7:03:33 am PST #1070 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"Communist", babe. As in Red. Know what you mean about the Breast thing...it's Nathan Zuckerman badfic. So, I guess he ficced himself....
deborah grabien - Feb 27, 2004 7:06:26 am PST #1071 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yeah. So many of mine are no longer even readable.
What I find with a lot of my favourites from those years is that I notice things I didn't notice then. It makes me blink that at age 13, I didn't notice what a total anti-semite Georgette Heyer was, or Dorothy Sayers, for that matter. I know that part of it was the split on that side of my family (accustomed to it, I mean), but somehow my brain never registered anything from either author except a sort of vague Anglican condescension.
Read them now? WHOA. They are all compact of their class of wealthy well-educated first half of the century C of E girls, they are. Tories to the nines.
deborah grabien - Feb 27, 2004 7:09:43 am PST #1072 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"Communist", babe
(blinking)
Jeepers, I typed "columnist." This is what I get for having Paul Krugman open in another browser window.
erikaj - Feb 27, 2004 7:29:15 am PST #1073 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Ha.I'm glad he's moved on. Adultery isn't as funny as it used to be, chez moi. And the Breast? Is like one of those ideas you get when you're being goofy with your friends or something, but you're supposed to get over it the next day. I have those. But till I read that, I didn't know famous writers did too. Somebody should have done the "cruel-to-be-kind" thing and torn that up.
Jesse - Feb 27, 2004 8:12:27 am PST #1074 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, can I tag this?
Hee! Of course!
Jess M. - Feb 27, 2004 9:20:58 am PST #1075 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
excellent
Jesse - Feb 27, 2004 9:22:10 am PST #1076 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So fun! I never get tagged!
Aims - Feb 27, 2004 9:52:07 am PST #1077 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t tags Jesse
You're it.
t runs away