Plei, sounds good. And get some DINNER, ma'am!
(working on Matty. Since I won't be able to from Sunday through Thursday...)
Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 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.
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
Kat - Dec 29, 2003 5:33:58 pm PST #362 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I've never read anything else, what would you recommend?
if not Midnight's Children then Moor's Last Sigh.
Kate P. - Dec 29, 2003 5:40:58 pm PST #363 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kat, Lyra's Oxford is just a short story, featuring Lyra and Pan, set in Oxford, after the events of the HDM books. It's fine for what it is, but it's really quite short, and I guess I'd been led to believe (by the fact that it's being marketed as a new book) that there would be more to it. Probably the best reason to buy it is the map of Oxford (helpful to me, since I seem to be reading a lot of books set in Oxford lately--just finished Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, which I loved) which includes a few excerpts from a catalog that outfits adventurers: naphtha lamps and so on. Nice touch.
My holiday gifts to myself included the Firefly DVDs and a copy of The D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths (yay!). I also intend to steal some of my dad's books at some point; my mom gave him Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, about growing up white and wild in southern Africa, and The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel. I gave him Peter Carey's The True History of the Kelly Gang, which I read in Australia and loved, and I gave my mom The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, continuing the theme of places-I-have-been.
Rushdie--I'd definitely go with Midnight's Children first, though I also really enjoyed The Satanic Verses.