Keeping in mind that I'm very picky with my non-genre stuff (err, please don't ask me about the book sitting on my desk right now... I'm gonna lie, and claim it's Decartes Sue or something--okay, fine, bodice rippers from the late 80s/early 90s amuse me like the Bad Fic, the more lurid the cover art the better, and if it's relief? I practically swoon), I'd say my love/meh/hate breakdown is about 60/30/10 either way (assigned or found).
Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
P.M. Marc - Jul 03, 2004 9:04:52 pm PDT #4578 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
P.M. Marc - Jul 03, 2004 9:06:16 pm PDT #4579 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
PS, Hec, you will notice that I did, in fact, post some of my brain droppings on Batcrap in the other thread. Just for you.
Okay, I lie. Because I want/NEED to talk about this issue. And so I did.
Holli - Jul 03, 2004 9:06:36 pm PDT #4580 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
After Shakespeare, my favorite sonnets are Millay's. I maintain that she wrote the best sonnets of the twentieth century, and the rest of her work was no less wonderful.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 9:06:38 pm PDT #4581 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
okay, fine, bodice rippers from the late 80s/early 90s amuse me
I saw you snickering with awful glee over that fox-porn romance thingie in Chicago. Unsurprised.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 9:07:21 pm PDT #4582 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
PS, Hec, you will notice that I did, in fact, post some of my brain droppings on Batcrap in the other thread. Just for you.
It's a gift!
Susan W. - Jul 03, 2004 9:07:43 pm PDT #4583 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Discussions I've had off thread have made me wonder, and this is a curiousity question more than anything: are you more prone to enjoy a book if you stumbled across it yourself, or if it was at some point assigned?
Definitely things I've stumbled across myself. Part of that is because I'm a moody, streaky sort of reader--I go through phases where I want nothing but a certain genre or style, or where I've overdosed on another and can't bear it for a year or two. Anything assigned has to be lucky to catch me in the right frame of mind.
Sean K - Jul 03, 2004 9:14:07 pm PDT #4584 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
In the library in my brain, Michael Chricton does not get shelved with the sci-fi, in spite of every one of his books (that I have read) having fictional science as a major part of the premise.
I think part of the disconnect is that his writing style is very much best-sellerese, which my brain does not parse as sci-fi no matter how much fictional science there is.
As tautological as it sounds, Michael Chricton writes Michael Chricton novels.
t bookmarking Jen's poetry post
Connie Neil - Jul 03, 2004 9:15:49 pm PDT #4585 of 10002
brillig
BTW, for those of us who don't have huge book-buying budgets, college lit books are a great source of poetry, short stories, and other stuff. There is duplication, but surprisingly little, and the introductions are often amusing when they explain why they chose what. I just counted, and I have 7 books from lit courses, acquired in school when students were off-loading their books.
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2004 9:16:18 pm PDT #4586 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As tautological as it sounds, Michael Chricton writes Michael Chricton novels.
No, he writes Michael Crichton novels.
P.M. Marc - Jul 03, 2004 9:27:56 pm PDT #4587 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
I saw you snickering with awful glee over that fox-porn romance thingie in Chicago. Unsurprised.
I think I may still have that, and it was lynx.
Not fox.
Ahem.
Get your beasties straight, boy-o.
BTW, for those of us who don't have huge book-buying budgets
Also, thrift stores and library discard sales. Score on a 10-fer day, and you're set for a while. Actually, thrift stores are great for finding old, cheap copies of a lot of things.