Is that by Nancy Farmer?
Yup. I was impressed and may look for more. Will also pass it on to the soon-to-be fifteen year-old niece.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Consuela - Jul 02, 2004 9:19:28 am PDT #4291 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Nutty - Jul 02, 2004 9:21:09 am PDT #4292 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
And it has one of the most magnificent opening paragraphs ever.
YES! Micole and I, after many months and years of disagreeing about literature, are one. Happy sighs all around.
Nancy Farmer
Yes. I read The Ear, The Eye and The Arm a couple of years ago and adored it, and am spreading the love. (I have not read House of the Scoprion yet myself.)
Kat - Jul 02, 2004 9:28:36 am PDT #4293 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love House of the Scorpion because it was sort of deliciously twisted for a YA book. I loved the fact that the country was called Opium. Matt was so broken, sad and confused.
If you liked that, you should try M.T.Anderson's book Feed which is also Sci Fi for the YA set. In the book, parents have a feed directly installed in the brains of children that allows them immediate cranial connection to the internet. So amazing.
billytea - Jul 02, 2004 9:34:49 am PDT #4294 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh! It's the climax of the first "character flees from awfulness" segment of the story
Y'know, I think this is what's missing from reality TV. ("Joe Millionaire rides up to the house on horseback. The women flee from awfulness. The End.")
Wolfram - Jul 02, 2004 9:36:00 am PDT #4295 of 10002
Visilurking
None. Go. Do.
Done.
Lyra Jane - Jul 02, 2004 10:00:13 am PDT #4296 of 10002
Up with the sun
The good thing about this kerfuffle? It got me to check in with this thread, which I haven't read often for reasons that escape me.
Anyhow, despite 21 years of reading, I've barely touched the canon. Mostly, I've read children's books, non-fiction, and random modern literature. (My college degree is in journalism, with a creative writing minor. I'm not sure I read any novels I hadn't done in high school or read on my own.) I deeply love all the Shakespeare I've read or seen performed, but that's about six plays. My only Dickens is an abridged Great Expectations in ninth grade. I've only read excerpts from Chaucer, Milton and Dante. And I was all proud of myself when I finished Tess of the D'Ubervilles last month, because it was the first Classic I had read in a long time.
I am a lazy reader with a short attention span, which I freely admit. Anyone want to recommend anything to me?
erikaj - Jul 02, 2004 10:01:21 am PDT #4297 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, Billytea, that was Herriot. I just read the book and saw the movie of the "Long Goodbye"...liked them both, for all they're so different...that thing about the cat food, bwah!
billytea - Jul 02, 2004 10:05:38 am PDT #4298 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The good thing about this kerfuffle? It got me to check in with this thread, which I haven't read often for reasons that escape me.
Yeah, me too. (That and a slow workday.) I've actually started reading fiction again just recently, having finished my exam and thus gaining some free time. Just finished The God of Small Things, and I'm now about halfway through The Blind Assassin. Following will be Gould's Book of Fish (A Novel in Twelve Fish), Life of Pi and Dirt Music. It's a good mix, I feel. After that I might hit the library. Or just get into some Doctor Who.
billytea - Jul 02, 2004 10:08:27 am PDT #4299 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, Billytea, that was Herriot.
I couldn't remember whether it was him or Siegfried, though I figured James. Loved those books as a teenager, read them over and over again. (I felt the postwar stuff started to lose some of the distinctive charm, unfortunately.)
msbelle - Jul 02, 2004 10:10:29 am PDT #4300 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
just out of curiosity, was it the fast increase in # of posts, knowing there was a kerfuffle, or someone suggesting it - that brought not normal readers back to this thread?
I am always interested when posters that don't normally post in a thread appear when there is a kerfuffle. I've certainly done it, mostly from bad motivation, but that is me.
Maybe lots of people lurk here?