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.
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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 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.
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?
deborah grabien - Dec 29, 2003 12:13:50 pm PST #328 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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?
I kind of assumed it was peyote, personally....
§ ita § - Dec 29, 2003 12:20:22 pm PST #329 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seems a hot book. My mother was given it this Christmas by a cousin also reading it, and on my beach walks, it was the only book I saw being read more than once.
But ... it's condescending, and I don't know which facts are fake, and which are interesting.