Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


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.


brenda m - Sep 17, 2004 10:15:09 am PDT #5906 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Janet Maslin, nasty? Surely you jest.


billytea - Sep 17, 2004 10:15:54 am PDT #5907 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.

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

It's a hardcover.