I love Salman Rushdie.
Somehow I forgot to finish The Satanic Verses. Got distracted.
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
'The Message'
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."
§ ita § - Dec 29, 2003 4:53:12 pm PST #359 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Atropa - Dec 29, 2003 5:47:39 pm PST #364 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Butbutbutbutbut - the footprints of an enormous hound! Cocaine and violins! Short monographs! Irene Adler!
I know, I know. I just never have gotten around to them.
Oh! I completely forgot one of the books I got as a prezzie: The Water Flowers by Edward Gorey. A first edition of it, because Pete knows how to pick presents for me.
amyparker - Dec 29, 2003 5:50:47 pm PST #365 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Okay, nobody asked, but I'm gonna share anyway. I got The Virago Book of Gardeners (collected excerpts from writings by female gardeners up to the 1930's); The Path of the Human Being, teisho (dharma talks) from Genpo Roshi; a book on restoring period gardens; Ursula K. LeGuin's translation of the Tao Te Ching; and a reprint of a furniture catalogue from 1912. There.
amych - Dec 29, 2003 5:52:56 pm PST #366 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
and a reprint of a furniture catalogue from 1912.
Got a scanner? Willing to scan and post? Cuz, duuuuuuude.
deborah grabien - Dec 29, 2003 6:01:28 pm PST #367 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I never got into Satanic Verses either. Midnight's Children, whole nother ball of wax.
Damn this stupid slow dialup. Want my DSL back. Snarl.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2003 6:05:41 pm PST #368 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow, if I ever try another kind, it's gonna be like moving to the big city from Hooterville, huh. But I don't know what I am missing, so it's just as well, I expect.