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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."

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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.

bon bon - Dec 29, 2003 6:50:46 pm PST #369 of 10002

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I love Salman Rushdie.

He was spotted last week in a diner I frequent. Jealous?

Everything's coming up Shawn Marie!

amyparker - Dec 29, 2003 7:01:36 pm PST #370 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.

amych, anything for you, babe. I'll do it tomorrow: tonight Kenny and DH are installing new hard drives and it's best to just stay away from the workstation.

Jessica - Dec 30, 2003 4:09:13 am PST #371 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The only Rushdie I've read was The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and I loved it. Must get around to Midnight's Children one of these days.

Jess M. - Dec 30, 2003 4:43:58 am PST #372 of 10002

Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse

Jess M. "Sunnydale Press" Dec 3, 2003 10:58:42 am PST

Books still available if requested by ~1 on Friday. I ship!

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