I like the Fadiman habit of critiquing the menus at restaurants: "They put an S on shrimp to make it plural? Oh, for heaven's sake."
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
Connie Neil - Dec 02, 2004 11:16:24 am PST #6510 of 10002
brillig
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 11:18:36 am PST #6511 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
"Sometimes I think my tombstone will read, 'She scanned well.'"
Ginger - Dec 02, 2004 11:30:37 am PST #6512 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have a confession to make. I just read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I recognize that many people recommended it, and I bought it when it first came out in trade paperback, but somehow I never got around to it until last week. So I just want to say "Wow" and tell anyone else who has it sitting around on his or her shelves to go read it. My only quibble was with the whole Antarctica thing, which didn't seem to accomplish much, plus the whole dog thing squicked me.
I'm not sure how much it helped that I know a lot about the early comic book illustrators and have met some of them. It does make my failure to have read the book before now more appalling.
I now must go forth and make sure all my friends have read it.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2004 11:43:11 am PST #6513 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
It's really great, isn't it? I read it twice. Also, you might like Jonathan Lethem's "Fortress of Solitude" which reminded me of it, in a small way.
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2004 11:59:12 am PST #6514 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I skimmed the Antarctica section. So did many of my friends. Mea culpa.
Steph L. - Dec 03, 2004 4:29:50 am PST #6515 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My only quibble was with the whole Antarctica thing
I skimmed it, too. Ugh.
Kate P. - Dec 03, 2004 6:17:59 am PST #6516 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I still have it in my TBR pile...
Jesse - Dec 03, 2004 9:59:21 am PST #6517 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Because I know people love Crusie...
I gave Welcome to Temptation to my cousin in a bridal shower bath basket gift, and of course she loved it, and has already read another. Fun!
Less fun: I noticed my grandmother had Faking It in her pile of books on tape, and asked her what she thought. She was HORRIFIED. "I didn't realize the title referred to her orgasms! And all the sex!" OMG, I was dying. It did also occur to me that maybe on paper she wouldn't have hated it so much, because she could have skimmed past the sex -- she said she didn't mind the rest of the story.
Consuela - Dec 03, 2004 10:05:38 am PST #6518 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love Crusie, but yeah, not so good for people squeamish about sex in their fiction.
And Bet Me is out in paperback now, right?
Amy - Dec 03, 2004 10:09:30 am PST #6519 of 10002
Because books.
Bet Me is out in paperback, as well as a reprint of Charlie All Night, which has been out of print for a while.