Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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."


Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2004 4:31:28 pm PDT #5896 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I'm thinking that Jonathan Strange might be fun to purchase at 20% off.

It's 20% off the regular price, though. Isn't it already at 30% off, being new?


Anne W. - Sep 16, 2004 4:37:19 pm PDT #5897 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Powers is very hit-and-miss for me; when he's on, nobody is as rich and strange. When he's off, he's offputting.

What did you think of The Stress of Her Regard?


Betsy HP - Sep 16, 2004 4:53:52 pm PDT #5898 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Impressed by the effort and the obvious research, didn't enjoy the narrative. Come to think, I'd rather read his sources than his novel.


sumi - Sep 16, 2004 5:32:44 pm PDT #5899 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I don't know -- I don't actually spend that much time at Borders.


Gus - Sep 16, 2004 7:19:08 pm PDT #5900 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Dang, missed the Bujold palaver when it was fresh. I will confess a great disappointment when I discovered that she was thinking of being in the romance genre. The notion that an author is targeting a marketing niche disturbs me. I think I get the reality that a product has to be a recognizable commodity to be attractive in the market.

I just wish this did not apply to my reality escape.


Betsy HP - Sep 17, 2004 8:15:03 am PDT #5901 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

How not to have your review start.

On Page 303 of Susanna Clarke's elephantine first novel,


sumi - Sep 17, 2004 8:47:51 am PDT #5902 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Sheesh -- how nasty of Janet Maslin!


Polter-Cow - Sep 17, 2004 9:39:01 am PDT #5903 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

No no, she means the novel never forgets.


billytea - Sep 17, 2004 9:51:50 am PDT #5904 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

No no, she means the novel never forgets.

I think she means it communicates over miles at a time at subsonic frequencies.


Polter-Cow - Sep 17, 2004 9:59:30 am PDT #5905 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It's endangered due to the high amount of poaching.