Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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."


Volans - Dec 29, 2003 3:54:00 pm PST #352 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Many hours of my life spent between that and Car Wars, you see.

Plei is me. Although I mixed some Nuclear War in there also.

I just went and checked, and there's a French-language version of the Illuminati game. Heh.


P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2003 3:54:16 pm PST #353 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Deb: after I get home. Maybe 2 hours?


deborah grabien - Dec 29, 2003 4:23:02 pm PST #354 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Plei, sounds good. And get some DINNER, ma'am!

(working on Matty. Since I won't be able to from Sunday through Thursday...)


msbelle - Dec 29, 2003 4:23:15 pm PST #355 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I got the Boondocks book too, Vortex.

Also, an autographed Book Lust by Nancy Pearl.

Then I got two childen's books. Allison by Allen Say and The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge.

Then I bought for myself: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator(HB), Iggie's House by Judy Blume (HB), Little House in the Big Woods, and Runaway Ralph - all kid's books.

and Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie.

I also borrowed my parent's Satanic Verses.


Kat - Dec 29, 2003 4:23:34 pm PST #356 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Isn't the DaVinci Code the one Simon Le Bon ripped into on Simon's Book Club? His complaints were like reading someone complaining about Mary Sues when they first hit them.

Yep. That's it.


§ ita § - Dec 29, 2003 4:27:12 pm PST #357 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Everyone is a bit marvellous, yes.

And I agree with you, Hil. You wouldn't need to be half as marvellous as them to work out the clues. Some were glaringly obvious enough that I got impatient waiting for the plot to hand the clue to the character who was a specialist, so he could work out what my non-specialist self had.

Plus, I got the impression he was just plain lying about stuff.


Vortex - Dec 29, 2003 4:51:42 pm PST #358 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I also borrowed my parent's Satanic Verses

I tried to read it. I figured any book that would piss off an entire religion to want to kill someone would be pretty juicy. I couldn't get past the first chapter. Then I thought how sad it was that the man would be in hiding for the rest of his life for a piece of crap. YSVMV


§ ita § - Dec 29, 2003 4:53:12 pm PST #359 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love Salman Rushdie.

Somehow I forgot to finish The Satanic Verses. Got distracted.


Vortex - Dec 29, 2003 4:55:54 pm PST #360 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I love Salman Rushdie.

I've never read anything else, what would you recommend?


DavidS - Dec 29, 2003 5:24:15 pm PST #361 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've never read anything else, what would you recommend?

Midnight's Children