Zoe: We're getting him back. Jayne: What are we gonna do, clone him?

'War Stories'


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."


Megan E. - Dec 29, 2003 8:43:22 am PST #318 of 10002

Has anyone here read, "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary," by Simon Winchester?

I haven't read it but I really want to. My mother got it for Christmas so hopefully she'll mail it to me after she and my sister read it.


Deena - Dec 29, 2003 8:46:07 am PST #319 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

That was a wonderful and well-deserved review.

My christmas books were Buffista gifties, Bev, so you can see why they'd be such the perfect choices.


deborah grabien - Dec 29, 2003 8:51:50 am PST #320 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Has anyone here read, "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary," by Simon Winchester? (I imagine erinaceous has.)

Just got it for Christmas - I loved his first one, and I'm expecting to love this one.


erikaj - Dec 29, 2003 9:33:42 am PST #321 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I was just buying books with my gift card. I got a Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin and a book about writing for television called "The First Time I got Paid for It"(Great title and one of the pulp babes on the cover.)


Megan E. - Dec 29, 2003 10:11:10 am PST #322 of 10002

I got a Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin

I loved this book - it's probably my favourite Atwood.


Vortex - Dec 29, 2003 10:13:04 am PST #323 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

book about writing for television called "The First Time I got Paid for It"

har. I want to own this on principle.


sarameg - Dec 29, 2003 10:23:20 am PST #324 of 10002

I got several books, but I'm blanking on most of them. What I do remember: Madeline Albright's autobiography, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoir and a Hillerman book on the places and people in the Leaphorn and Chee books.


Jess M. - Dec 29, 2003 10:29:21 am PST #325 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse

I loved the Blind Assassin too


erikaj - Dec 29, 2003 10:51:34 am PST #326 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Good to know! And yeah, I'll let you know how the second one is, too...v.sexy Buffistaish cover however.


§ ita § - Dec 29, 2003 12:11:58 pm PST #327 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Deb, that was a well-deserved review.

Just finished reading my mother's Da Vinci Code. It was ... well, it depends on how much crack he's on, really. A cursory web scan indicates "a fair amount." Is that true?