You know, I never noticed, but...now you mention it, a lot of them do look upon prison a bit more fondly than one might expect, Jim. Wow, Hec's and Pelecanos' stock both rose. Color me impressed. Yeah, Angus, wrod on that term thing. Surely, there was a fifties word he could have found. And it's probably easier when you're Lehane, as opposed to, say, me, Newbie McRookie, who doesn't even come up on Amazon or anything. No excuse.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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."
erikaj - Dec 26, 2004 8:30:16 am PST #6718 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 26, 2004 10:04:51 am PST #6719 of 10002
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Interesting book gift I got: the Faber book of Movie Verse. Poems about movies from the turn of the century to the early 90s. Looks amazing but I haven't gotten a chance to look at it in any great detail. The only other book gifts that I got were school books, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories.
Pix - Dec 26, 2004 10:43:59 am PST #6720 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
I got [link] Shakespeare After All.
I'm looking forwad to reading it, though it's a little bit intimidating looking to my vacation jelly-brains.
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 26, 2004 7:54:38 pm PST #6721 of 10002
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
That looks excellent...pretty much any book about Shakespeare makes me salivate though.
JohnSweden - Dec 26, 2004 8:38:45 pm PST #6722 of 10002
I can't even.
I got Shakespeare After All.
Wow, that looks like a gem and what a good price. Or, alternatively, what WDC said.
Pix - Dec 26, 2004 8:40:59 pm PST #6723 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
So long as it doesn't make me feel like I'm at work, I'll enjoy it.
Consuela - Dec 28, 2004 7:55:36 am PST #6724 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read Biohazard on the plane last night. It's a nonfiction book by a former Soviet bioweapons scientist named Ken Alibek (actually Kan Alibekov), who was possibly the highest-ranking Kazakh in the Soviet military. Anyway, he defected to the US in about 92 and wrote this fascinating history of his involvement with the Soviet bioweapons industry and his experience with it. What I found most interesting is that the USSR was absolutely convinced the US had an ongoing bioweapons program, and their program was intended to counter ours. Alibek finally left when he became convinced that this was untrue, after a tour of US sites in 1991.
It's an easy read -- I read the whole thing on the plane last night -- and rather unsettling, because Alibek isn't convinced the threat of bioweapons is gone even if the Soviet union is. Fascinating stuff.
victor infante - Dec 28, 2004 8:36:47 am PST #6725 of 10002
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Consuela - Dec 28, 2004 9:05:37 am PST #6726 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Holy cow.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2004 11:25:49 am PST #6727 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
Wow, that's a blow to the literary world.