Hey Alicia, I had a question for you over in the music thread...
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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."
Kate P. - Sep 12, 2004 5:40:17 pm PDT #5806 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
NoiseDesign - Sep 12, 2004 5:41:53 pm PDT #5807 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, it does take some careful reading in a few parts, but he's also covering well over 100 years of time and multiple overlapping and interrelated events. I've read a fair amount about Mormonism in the past so I knew about a lot of the stuff he's writing about but quite a bit of the information about Mormon Fundamentalists is new to me.
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2004 5:47:23 pm PDT #5808 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah. It was mostly the part surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre where there were a few things like "the Mormons decided to ..." and he doesn't say whether he means the Mormon Church dedided to or the bunch of Mormons who happened to be right there decided to. I don't remember the exact sentence right now, but there was one sentence in particular where I read the paragraph at least three times and still couldn't figure out which he meant.
I know some people who feel that that book is really prejudiced against the Mormon church, and while I don't think so, I think that some of those ambiguous sentences could contribute to that reading of it.
NoiseDesign - Sep 12, 2004 5:56:48 pm PDT #5809 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
I can see how it can easily be read as prejudiced. It really points out quite a bit about the Mormon church and church history that isn't all that pleasant.
lisah - Sep 13, 2004 8:30:29 am PDT #5810 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Now I'm reading Candyfreak and have laughed out loud many times, even though I'm not even to page 50 yet.
This was written by a friend of mine from grad school. I've been meaning to pick it up.
Steph L. - Sep 13, 2004 10:40:52 am PDT #5811 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oooh! Bet Me is in paperback?
Calli - Sep 13, 2004 11:13:36 am PDT #5812 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It is indeed, Steph. I bought it this weekend. The Barnes and Noble near me had it in one of the New Releases stacks.
Atropa - Sep 14, 2004 8:05:10 pm PDT #5813 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have finally discovered a sub-genre of fiction that gives me a knee-jerk of revulsion. Vampire romance novels.
I had no idea such things existed. I foolishly assumed vampire novels lived in the horror genre, and didn't go wandering through other sections. Plei derived much amusement from pointing out vampire romance novels (all shelved in the overwhelmingly pink romance section at B&N), then watching me wince at 1) the awful, awful cover art, and 2) the equally dreadful back-cover blurbs.
I'm assuming there has to be one or two decently-written ones in the world. But wow, I couldn't tell that from the books I saw today. I'm going to sit over here and clutch my copies of Dracula, The Delicate Dependancy, Anno Dracula, and Lost Souls while I rock back and forth.
Susan W. - Sep 14, 2004 8:20:44 pm PDT #5814 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh, there's lots of them, Jilli. It's quite the trend, these days.
Atropa - Sep 14, 2004 8:22:55 pm PDT #5815 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, there's lots of them, Jilli. It's quite the trend, these days.
But are any of them at all worth reading? None of the ones I gingerly looked at seemed like it.