wrod. The scene was funny because the cop's like "This guy's stuff's too normal. There has to be a reason why someone would attack him. "So she sees the tape and wonders if he has a freaky porn collection.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
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 30, 2004 8:08:00 am PST #6756 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Megan E. - Jan 03, 2005 3:47:44 am PST #6757 of 10002
Anyone get any books for Christmas? Here's my list. I've read the first 4 already.
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Undead and Unemployed by Mary Janice Davidson
Tales of the Slayer, Volume 3 by Various
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
The Logogryph by Thomas Wharton
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Tales of theVampires Graphic Novel by Joss Whedon
The Charlaine Harris books were ok - the first wasn't so great but they got better. They are kind of Stephanie Plum-ish only with vampires and no Grandma Mazur.
Volans - Jan 03, 2005 4:01:04 am PST #6758 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Anyone have any poetry anthologies they'd recommend? I have an old Norton's, but it's really packed full of modern stuff that's not very good, and I'd like to get an anthology that includes more confirmed greats and less experimental stuff.
(oh, and for Xmas I got Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, which I've only read the intro and first paragraph of. But what a first paragraph! And I got a technical book on storyboarding computer games, but that doesn't really count as Literary.)
DavidS - Jan 03, 2005 4:36:39 am PST #6759 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anyone have any poetry anthologies they'd recommend?
Hmmm, I can't think of exact titles, but I know I've really enjoyed ones on the WWI poets from Britain, and a collection of Pre-Raphaelites.
Oh! You know what's good? The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heany and Ted Hughes.
I love Calvino's Baron In the Trees and Invisible Cities.
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2005 4:42:28 am PST #6760 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
There's another Adrian Mole book?!? Must. Get.
Volans - Jan 03, 2005 4:43:47 am PST #6761 of 10002
move out and draw fire
the WWI poets from Britain, and a collection of Pre-Raphaelites.
Ooo! Yes! I like both of these genres, and really should look at some focused anthologies for them. And I'm off to Amazon to look at The Rattle Bag.
brenda m - Jan 03, 2005 5:52:39 am PST #6762 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
Oh, I love Invisible Cities. (I think I picked it up a few years ago from your rec, David.) I've been meaning to check out more of his work.
My x-mas presents this year included three pairs of socks and a blaze orange Cincinnati Bengals hat, but no books. Which is cool, I don't really care, but I think I'm going to take myself off to a bookstore and do my own Santa-ing once my next check comes in. I've been compiling recs from this thread for some time now.
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2005 5:53:42 am PST #6763 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
a blaze orange Cincinnati Bengals hat.
Dude. My sympathies.
Sophie Max - Jan 03, 2005 5:54:45 am PST #6764 of 10002
Raquel,
this is also modern (20th Century) but I thought it had lots of good stuff - TS Eliot, ee cummings, Margaret Atwood, William Carlos Williams, lots of other good stuff. The editor. is Canadian, so there are more Canadian poets than you might otherwise find: [link]
If you're looking for not so modern stuff, sorry, that's all I got.
Jessica - Jan 03, 2005 6:02:45 am PST #6765 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
oh, and for Xmas I got Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, which I've only read the intro and first paragraph of. But what a first paragraph!
Oh, I love that book! Easily my favorite Calvino.