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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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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.

DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 10:21:42 pm PDT #4588 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Get your beasties straight, boy-o.

Hey, brain scrubbing is a long and tedious process. I got rid of the specific beastie, but not the beastiality.

You'll appreciate this. I was watching my recently snagged Batman animated vids. In the episode "Torch Song" there was this exchange which made me snerk out loud.

Babs is on the phone with Bats, she's doing research on the computer. Bats wants her in on the evening's action.

Batman: "What are you doing tonight?"
Babs: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky."
Batman: "Wha?"
Babs: "Never mind."

Micole - Jul 04, 2004 3:02:44 am PDT #4589 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

I did find Singularity Sky, which I'd forgotten I was looking for, and Clouds End, which I picked up because people had been talking up Sean Stewart in this thread.

Eeee! If you hate Clouds End, I beg you to give Stewart another chance. He was trying to write McKillip plus Tolkien and ... it really didn't work. This is the only one of his books I just can't stand. The opening is beautiful, but after ...

I meant to check the mm pb section for Singularity Sky, now that it's out.

Lyra Jane - Jul 04, 2004 3:32:57 am PDT #4590 of 10002

Up with the sun

the Atwood you quoted is the Atwood I think of when I think of her poetry.

I always think of "a fishhook/an open eye."

I can't read poetry with my higher brain on -- I just let my eyes skim the pretty words until some of them catch on my heart.

And the oldest book I have is my grandmother's copy of Jane Eyre, which is from 1943 and has gorgeous woodcut illustrations.

Jessica - Jul 04, 2004 4:34:29 am PDT #4591 of 10002

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

Eeee! If you hate Clouds End, I beg you to give Stewart another chance. He was trying to write McKillip plus Tolkien and ... it really didn't work. This is the only one of his books I just can't stand. The opening is beautiful, but after ...

Heh. So, good thing I bought it used, then?

Which titles do you recommend?

Jen - Jul 04, 2004 6:57:18 am PDT #4592 of 10002

love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

Jen - Jul 04, 2004 6:57:40 am PDT #4593 of 10002

love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

sorry, wrong thread

Daisy Jane - Jul 04, 2004 7:20:58 am PDT #4594 of 10002

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

May I use this as a tag, Heather? I'll include the 10Comm ref if you want to make sure that people don't start thinking you're making offers you don't intend.

You may use it however you wish connie.

I am going to curl up with my college lit books right now.

Trudy Booth - Jul 04, 2004 7:29:51 am PDT #4595 of 10002

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

5. John Keats

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

That's where I got my name.

Dani - Jul 04, 2004 8:18:50 am PDT #4596 of 10002

I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers

Not Micole, but for Sean Stewart I would recommend The Night Watch first of all. Lovely, melancholy story about art and how it survives. Plus Vancouver transformed by magic is one of my favourite settings ever.

You can read excerpts from his novels on his website, Jess - that might help you pick one to start with.

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