Or French-occupied Algeria.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
joe boucher - Jul 12, 2004 1:43:07 pm PDT #5074 of 10002
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Hayden - Jul 12, 2004 1:44:06 pm PDT #5075 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
There is that.
Glamcookie - Jul 12, 2004 2:38:55 pm PDT #5076 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and I'm to the part where Thomas' ship was torpedoed. t sob
erikaj - Jul 12, 2004 2:51:53 pm PDT #5077 of 10002
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I know...that's horrible, GC. One thing I admire about that book is its ability to carry so many moods and do them all believably, if that makes any kind of sense.
Glamcookie - Jul 12, 2004 2:53:53 pm PDT #5078 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Yes, erika. I love the way the book is so immersed in the time period (40s). The language and everything is so fun! Poor Joe, though. I can barely stand it.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 3:25:29 pm PDT #5079 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
GC, I think I gasped out loud at that part.
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2004 4:49:38 am PDT #5080 of 10002
brillig
Yeehah! We got us a book club!
Amy - Jul 13, 2004 4:55:33 am PDT #5081 of 10002
Because books.
Yay for a book club! Now to figure out what I'll recommend...
Lilty Cash - Jul 13, 2004 5:02:00 am PDT #5082 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Huzzah! I gots me a recommendation all picked out.
erikaj - Jul 13, 2004 5:55:58 am PDT #5083 of 10002
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I would have...do I have to come up with Questions to Ponder and junk? And do they have to be classics?