Has any Buffista read it? I've never met anyone who has.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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."
Maysa - Jun 16, 2004 7:10:26 am PDT #3286 of 10002
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 7:10:50 am PDT #3287 of 10002
brillig
Hee. I've started a cult.
flea - Jun 16, 2004 7:11:42 am PDT #3288 of 10002
information libertarian
Susan, if you've never read Nora Roberts I think you have to try at least one. I'd go for one of the trilogy Sea Swept, Rising Tide, Inner Harbor. Okay, there is sort of a secret baby, but it's in the past!!
Also, try Mary Jo Putney's modern books. If you like her historicals, it might be especially interesting to see the same writer write in a different setting.
Jennifer Crusie has no secret babies, and is big with the snark, and Southern Ohio is defintiely another place...
Those are about the only contemporary romance authors I have read.
Hayden - Jun 16, 2004 7:14:01 am PDT #3289 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
If there were a throwdown to determine the reigning monarch of Modernism, Virginia Woolf would whup James Joyce's ass so badly he'd be crying for his mommy all the way home to Dublin.
The gauntlet is down! Woolf may have pioneered the language, but with Ulysses, Joyce perfected the form.
Calli - Jun 16, 2004 7:15:13 am PDT #3290 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Has any Buffista read it? I've never met anyone who has.
I've read Ulysses. Liked it, too. For days afterwards I kept making connections and having, "Oh, waitaminute" moments about it. Finnegan's Wake, however, nsm.
erikaj - Jun 16, 2004 7:15:41 am PDT #3291 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I have, but not for real, with like, understanding and shit. I picked it up on "Banned Books Week" one time and just got stoned on the sounds. Cause if it was banned, it's got to be good(I'm such a lefty cliche)
Fred Pete - Jun 16, 2004 7:16:34 am PDT #3292 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Has any Buffista read it?
I tried. Didn't make it to page 150.
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 7:19:51 am PDT #3293 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Has any Buffista read it? I've never met anyone who has.
You missed my post, I guess. Yes, I've read it, many times. Appreciate it? Maybe not in the accepted "oooh, he's school of yada fishcakes" sense, because I don't actually care what he's considered to be part of; truth to tell; I just know he makes me dizzy in the best possible way, and I want to get naked and roll around in the language. Of course, I had that same reaction to the Illuminati trilogy, except I had no trouble following the flashbacks and whatnot - made perfect sense to me. Which is odd, seeing as how I didn't actually do a lot of acid back in the sixties.
And why are we comparing Woolf and Joyce? Different cases of beer, at least in my head.
Dana - Jun 16, 2004 7:21:10 am PDT #3294 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I've read it.
It helps when you have a guide. "Wait, I thought his parents were dead. Why are people turning into pigs? Oh, it's a hallucination."
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 7:21:36 am PDT #3295 of 10002
brillig
Of course, I had that same reaction to the Illuminati trilogy, except I had no trouble following the flashbacks and whatnot - made perfect sense to me. Which is odd, seeing as how I didn't actually do a lot of acid back in the sixties.
Oh, it made sense to me, too, but I realized I was reading with a lot more focus than I normally did, which was a pleasant change.
Illuminatus! is a great alternative to acid--all the sensory goulash without the nasty physical side effects.