Cool, thanks Maysa! I'll check my library for those collections.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
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."
Megan E. - Jan 12, 2004 4:31:46 pm PST #464 of 10002
Jesse - Jan 13, 2004 4:45:15 am PST #465 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I got this book for Christmas, Mr. Timothy, by Louis Bayard. "Mr. Timothy" is Timothy Cratchit, aka Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol. It's basically AU futurefic -- he's grown up now, not a cripple, and says he was never the annoyingly pious little kid his father wanted him to be. It's interesting, because the story would hold up without him being Tim Cratchit -- it's a story about a young man struggling in London and a prostitution ring and whatnot -- but it gives the background a lot more depth, without the author actually having to go into it. The character could still have a rich "Uncle" without it being Ebeneezer Scrooge, but that fact that it is means as you read it, you know more about the characters than the author tells you. Interesting.
msbelle - Jan 13, 2004 4:47:52 am PST #466 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I felt like I was making a good deal of progress yesterday in Middlesex , but I am only on page 150. It is so not gripping me. Anyone have this experience with it?
deborah grabien - Jan 13, 2004 7:47:34 am PST #467 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Ooooh, "Mr. Timothy"! On my TBR list.
Jesse - Jan 13, 2004 9:42:47 am PST #468 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I liked it, wasn't in love with it. But it does have "effulgent" in it, so there's that.
beth b - Jan 13, 2004 10:22:41 am PST #469 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just read the underworld which is the novelization of the movie. It too had the word effulgent in it.
DavidS - Jan 13, 2004 10:57:30 am PST #470 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But it does have "effulgent" in it, so there's that.
Yeah but then so does every article Roger Angell wrote for the New Yorker. Once I noticed it I started checking each piece.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 13, 2004 11:03:19 am PST #471 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yeah but then so does every article Roger Angell wrote for the New Yorker. Once I noticed it I started checking each piece.
So you're saying there's a connection between Spike and Roger Angell?
erikaj - Jan 13, 2004 11:04:35 am PST #472 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
really? I had never heard it till William said it.(And I don't mean that in a Bitchy "It didn't count till you, baby" way.)
DavidS - Jan 13, 2004 11:06:57 am PST #473 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So you're saying there's a connection between Spike and Roger Angell?
Spike's a big closet baseball fan.
really? I had never heard it till William said it
I guess the point in either case is that it's a bit precious as a word. "Brilliant" would probably suffice.
Which is not to say that precious words don't have their own merits. You'll have to pry "effloresce" and "deliquesce" from my cold, stiff fingers.