Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
There's another Adrian Mole book?!? Must. Get.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2005 4:42:28 am PST #6760 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Kate P. - Jan 03, 2005 7:44:59 am PST #6766 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I got a SIGNED copy of Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, which my mother picked up for me when she met M.E. Kerr at a conference earlier this year. It is so very cool. I also got Doris Lessing's two-volume autobiography--way cool, lots of stuff about growing up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia--and The Neverending Story, which I am in the middle of, AIFG. Also, my housemate bought me the huge compilation book of all the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories, which I'm rereading and loving all over again.
DavidS - Jan 03, 2005 7:48:58 am PST #6767 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I bought JZ Sorcery and Cecelia based on recommendations here from Jilli and Betsy (I think).
SF Chron reviewed a novel of interest for the board: The Letters of Mina Harker.
Raquel, I found The Rattle Bag on Amazon UK.
Connie Neil - Jan 03, 2005 8:04:06 am PST #6768 of 10002
brillig
I bought JZ Sorcery and Cecelia based on recommendations here from Jilli and Betsy (I think).
Amy got me that for Christmas, along with the sequel! She only got it to me yesterday, and I've already finished it.
erikaj - Jan 03, 2005 8:13:37 am PST #6769 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I got
about five Pelecanos books(I'm a very devoted fangirl and always happy to like books by, you know, live people.)
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep(not started yet)
Richard Price's Samaritan(pretty great, but not like "Clockers")
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates(LOVE this man. The sixties were very nice to him, though.)
And a signed The Wire: Truth Be Told My love affair with both the written word and the dark side(Robbins excepted) carries on.