So you say.
Damn you, Bridget! Damn you to Hades! You broke my heart in a million pieces! You made me love you, and then you-- I SHAVED MY BEARD FOR YOU, DEVIL WOMAN!
Monty ,'Trash'
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."
brenda m - Dec 01, 2004 10:32:52 am PST #6498 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
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 02, 2004 7:35:43 am PST #6499 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
All of them were good, but I think Uh, Honey, Whose Hat Is That? was my favorite.
brenda m - Dec 02, 2004 9:40:58 am PST #6500 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
Katerina Bee - Dec 02, 2004 10:02:26 am PST #6501 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Note to Stephen King fans: Big Steve will appear on The Daily Show tonight. Be sure to Tivo!
Also, although I do sorta hate to admit this after all the rude things I've said about her latest work, I became a big Laurell K. Hamilton fan when she published her some of her first stories in Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Sword and Sorceress" series. "Geese" and "Winterkill" were particularly good, and I still enjoy them. I was so pleased when she started publishing whole novels, back when Anita had her job on her mind. Somehow that was much more interesting than the current perpetual Naked Time Happy Hour.
Anyway, I went so far as to track down a bunch of LKH's early short stories and copied them for friends. I have extras. These days my goal is to clear my shelves and delete clutter. If anybody is interested, please let me know, and I will mail them to you instead of throwing them in the recycling. Profile addy is good. Use the words "Literary Buffistas" in the subject line and don't fear the spam bounce, and I'll be checking e again in a few days.
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2004 10:24:02 am PST #6502 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Actually, things-made-from books always upset me. I wind up thinking "But what if somebody wanted to READ that?"
Ginger - Dec 02, 2004 10:31:01 am PST #6503 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Things made from books really disturb me. With very few exceptions, I think of books as sacred objects. There are a few books I think would have a higher calling as furniture, but a bedroom made entirely out of Ethan Frome is a pretty disturbing idea too.
Lilty Cash - Dec 02, 2004 10:32:18 am PST #6504 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I wouldn't mind a bedskirt made of "The Virgin Bride Said Wow".
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 10:45:05 am PST #6505 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Ginger, have you read Anne Fadiman's essay "Never Do That to a Book" in Ex Libris?
It speaks exactly to that issue and is also very funny. (courtly love vs. carnal love of books!)
I adore Ex Libris. Every book lover should read it.
Beverly - Dec 02, 2004 10:46:43 am PST #6506 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Agreed. And thanks, Kristin, I'd forgotten the title--and I have it. ...Somewhere here.
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 10:53:07 am PST #6507 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Every time I try to pick a favorite essay in that book, I end up listing almost all of them. "Nothing New Under the Sun" (in which she gently mocks the concept of plagiarism by footnoting practically every sentence in the essay) and "Marrying Libraries" are up there, though.
Promising to love each other for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health -- even promising to forsake all others -- had been no problem, but it was a good thing the Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything about marrying our libraries and throwing out the duplicates. That would have been a far more solemn vow, one that would probably have caused the wedding to grind to a mortifying halt.
So.True.