Lead review, Sunday paper, and a rave, but David Fusilli, no less.
I am a happy, happy woman.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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."
deborah grabien - Dec 28, 2003 8:18:48 pm PST #294 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Megan E. - Dec 29, 2003 2:47:16 am PST #295 of 10002
Did anyone get any books for christmas? I got a lot of buffy related books like "Slayer Slang" and "BTVS and Philosophy". My sister also got me "The Wisdom of War" by Christopher Golden.
I fear future Christmases will not be so buffy plentiful.
justkim - Dec 29, 2003 3:27:33 am PST #296 of 10002
Another social casualty...
I got Mirrorr, Mirror Gregory Maguire's ( Wicked ) new one. I also got all four Buffy S2 script books. I also got the DVD of Gaiman's Neverwhere.
I'm looking forward to reading and watching as soon as my head clears from my Christmas flu/cold/bug/thing.
Megan E. - Dec 29, 2003 3:44:25 am PST #297 of 10002
I also got the DVD of Gaiman's Neverwhere.
I saw this for the first time in a store before christmas and was sooo tempted to buy it for myself. Hopefully I can find it again now that I have christmas money to spend.
Nilly - Dec 29, 2003 4:28:58 am PST #298 of 10002
Swouncing
Her dialogue, though bursting with arcane references and local colloquialisms, allows the characters to shine through: The banter Laine and his Penny toss about is particularly priceless. And she builds the kind of sophisticated suspense that surrounds and embraces us to make our minds spin and the hair on the back of our neck rise in this enchanted tale.
Oh, that's just lovely. Not the least because it's true. Congratulations, Deb!
Kate P. - Dec 29, 2003 5:10:15 am PST #299 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I got a whole bunch of books for Christmas, as usual: the new Tom Robbins, Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman (a bit of a letdown--it's so short!), Songbook by Nick Hornby, a couple of Joseph Campbell, and best of all Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. Whee!
Vortex - Dec 29, 2003 5:17:36 am PST #300 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Did anyone get any books for christmas?
I got The Boondocks anthology "A Right to be Hostile" and a book about women writers of the 20th century.
Jess M. - Dec 29, 2003 5:23:32 am PST #301 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
I got a bunch of books for Hanukkah:
Oryx and Crake by Margart Atwood, Lost by Gregory Maguire, Enemies, a Love Story, by Singer, Lies my Teacher Told Me (forgot the author), and Easter Island, by Jennifer Vanderbes, which I've already finished and highly recommend.
Megan E. - Dec 29, 2003 6:18:28 am PST #302 of 10002
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman (a bit of a letdown--it's so short!),
I bought this for myself and read it at the airport. I also felt letdown and would have liked the story to be about 50 pages longer. The writing seemed to lack the richness of the trilogy.
Kate P. - Dec 29, 2003 7:10:48 am PST #303 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
There's just nothing much to it, and the explanation offered at the end for the witch's behavior was pretty obvious . No interesting new revelations about the world or the characters. I was definitely disappointed.