Thanks! I've been sort of lazily looking. The friend is spending his retirement plotting out a novel and writing bits and pieces. A good part of it takes place along the Trail. He has no intention of actually finishing it, he just likes doing the research and and convoluting the plot. It's a fun puzzle to him ( I vaguely recall it is partly a deliberate exercise to keep his mind working- he was diagnosed with Alzheimers proabably a decade ago.)
Yeah... That went well.
Mal ,'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."
sarameg - Dec 13, 2004 12:19:44 pm PST #6580 of 10002
Consuela - Dec 13, 2004 1:23:41 pm PST #6581 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
See, I found A Walk in the Woods endearingly self-deprecating. He was willing to be charmed, and found himself charmed. There is less charm in Lost Continent, although not none. He loves Savannah and Charleston. (Well, who wouldn't?)
meara - Dec 13, 2004 4:30:20 pm PST #6582 of 10002
Ooh. Appalachian Trail books. Tempting.
Yep, Amazon actually emailed back and said "It must've been lost, we'll send you another by 2 day shipping". Which is awesome--especially because the trip I was buying them for has been postponed anyway, so I won't be missing reading material! Of course, I'm not *quite* counting my blessings--until the books actually get here.
sarameg - Dec 13, 2004 4:57:34 pm PST #6583 of 10002
Whenever I tried to visit part of the AT...it was socked in with fog. And I lived in NC for almost 4 years... It was comical.
Volans - Dec 13, 2004 8:38:41 pm PST #6584 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Dang, I remember when you could count on Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side and Bloom County every day. We thought it would last forever. sniff
Geezers with Hec. I more-or-less keep up with Get Fuzzy and Boondocks, but it's not the same as the Golden Days.
Thing is, I read a lot of webcomics now. Not daily, but every 6 weeks or so I'll hit my bookmarks and read all of them at once. Of course, with some of them the author/artist manages to get only one out in 6 months.
Emlah - Dec 14, 2004 3:16:16 am PST #6585 of 10002
To every idea a shelf...
I tracked down and read Ex Libris after it was mentioned here and enjoyed it enormously. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could suggest other good books about books. I've read The Child That Books Built and So Many Books, So Little Time.
Ginger - Dec 14, 2004 4:06:12 am PST #6586 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ruined by Reading is good.
Steph L. - Dec 14, 2004 6:59:35 am PST #6587 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
McSweeney's is launching the Believer's Book Series, which are collections of essays from The Believer. The first is Nick Hornsby's The Polysyllabic Spree.
JohnSweden - Dec 14, 2004 7:18:58 am PST #6588 of 10002
I can't even.
Nick Hornby is the everloving bomb. Fever Pitch made so much of my life make sense to me and will help obsessives anywhere, even Spuffists. In fact, it reminds me that Spike's sole actual redeeming feature was that he was a Man U fan.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2004 7:20:35 am PST #6589 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And his coat. I'd redeem him for the coat.