'Underneath'
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."
what is--according to the racists--the secret Jewish Agenda?
Same thing it always is, Pinky!
Which Codrescu are you reading, Betsy? I read a lot of his stuff some years ago (living in Romania, hanging with friends of his), but the last I read was The Bloody Countess which I really didn't care for. Probably unfairly, as I'd been working on my own thing about Elizabeth Bathory at the time and his was not at all what was in my head.
Somebody referred to The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed In New Orleans upthread. I haven't read any of his fiction.
Hey, Andrej Codrescu (spelled wrong, I'm sure) is fun to read.
That would be me. You've read it Betsy? I just started. I stole it from mom's house. She can have it back when I get my Maus's back. Of course, I can have those when she gets her Don Quixote back, which I will gladly give her when I can have my Wodehouse etc.etc.
I never got around to reading Maus. Has anybody read the new one, In The Shadow of the Towers?
Taking over the world, pretty much.
If you take over the world, will you Hil, as spokesmodel for the Jewish people, promise to do a better job running it than the Un-Jewish have been doing?
Which is so stupid because everyone knows the Dutch secretly run the world.
Oh, man. Are they going to get a piece of my mind. For one thing, now I have to stop blaming Canada (well, except for those Canadians of Dutch heritage, I suppose).
Taking over the world, pretty much. The implication usually seems to be not being anyone who actually seems to have power (President, Prime Minister, etc.), but running the banks and the media and having all the political advisory roles, to be able to run everything from behind the scenes.
Why don't any of their three Ks stand for Krazy, again?
I never got around to reading Maus. Has anybody read the new one, In The Shadow of the Towers?
My co-worker hasn't read the whole thing, but he's seen panels/pages from it, and says it's pretty powerful.
I found this on my FriendsFriends list at LJ, and thought it might interest many of y'all (I'm not a big sci-fi reader, but I know a lot of people here are):
If you can ignore the fact that Laura Bush puts it on, the 4th Annual National Book Festival is going to be held on October 9th this year, rain or shine, on the Mall between 7th and 14th St. Here's the line up for *just* the Sci-Fi tent (first year they have one) -- the times in parentheses are the signing times:
10:00- 10:40 Ben Bova (11-12)
10:45-11:25 Neal Stephenson (12-1)
11:30-12:10 Catherine Asaro (1-2)
12:15-12:55 Frederik Pohl (2-3)
1:00-1:40 Neil Gaiman (10-11)
1:45-2:25 Lois McMaster Bujold (3-4)
2:30-3:10 Patricia Wrede (4-5)
3:15-3:55 Connie Willis (1-2)
2:30-3:10 Patricia Wrede (4-5)
Eeeee! I love The Enchanted Forest Chronicles so very much.
Has anybody read the new one, In The Shadow of the Towers?
Just read the reviews which pretty much have the same opinion.
I own Jonathan Strange! I got the last copy at my little bookstore around the corner.
It's very large, and black. And I'm not opening it because I'm still reading Lust Over Pendle. And why did nobody ever tell me Draco Malfoy is Francis Crawford? Heh. (Although I have to say I'd call this a radical interpretation of the text...)