I'd love there to be more Jonathan Strange (and less Mr. Norrell!)
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
Megan E. - Jan 04, 2005 7:39:51 am PST #6778 of 10002
DavidS - Jan 04, 2005 7:49:09 am PST #6779 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Didn't it take her 20 years to write this book? Of course, that's with a full time job as well.
Consuela - Jan 04, 2005 7:49:41 am PST #6780 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I still haven't read Jonathan Strange, although I bought it the week it came out. Bad reader, no donut.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2005 7:53:55 am PST #6781 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Suela is me.
DebetEsse - Jan 04, 2005 8:53:02 am PST #6782 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm sitting at about 1/3 of the way through. I pick it up whenever I have out-of-the-house down time. It's just hard to carry around with me, rather than keep in the car, as it is a big-ass book.
Ginger - Jan 04, 2005 8:54:17 am PST #6783 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I got it for Christmas. I knew I'd never get through it as a library book, and paperbacks that size tend to fall apart.
Atropa - Jan 04, 2005 9:01:02 am PST #6784 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I bought JZ Sorcery and Cecelia based on recommendations here from Jilli and Betsy (I think).
Now you need to get her College of Magics and Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevemer.
SF Chron reviewed a novel of interest for the board: The Letters of Mina Harker
Well, I guess I better go track that down.
erikaj - Jan 04, 2005 9:06:52 am PST #6785 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
No, I've not read the latest Roth, but I am a big fan...the Breast being badfic, notwithstanding.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2005 9:07:29 am PST #6786 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
"Who's Your Daddy" is now mainstream. (I never knew it wasn't.)
So. Which of the following are too salacious for casual use: "sucks", "bites", "who's your daddy?"
The author of the article thinks 1 and 3 are okay, but 2 is too much.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2005 9:10:39 am PST #6787 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
While the phrase has its innocent overtones -- in the 1969 Zombies hit "Time of the Season," the singer investigates a potential love interest by inquiring, "What's your name, who's your daddy?"
Really? I never thought that was even slightly innocent.