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.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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."
DebetEsse - Jan 04, 2005 8:53:02 am PST #6782 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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.
erikaj - Jan 04, 2005 9:12:09 am PST #6788 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Um, no... and mostly I'm subtext-impaired.
Connie Neil - Jan 04, 2005 9:18:48 am PST #6789 of 10002
brillig
I always thought "who's your daddy" in that song was him asking "Is your father important in this town or can I do waht I want to you without getting in trouble?"
Calli - Jan 04, 2005 9:20:59 am PST #6790 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think the next line of the song is, "Is he rich like me?" so I figured the singer was trying to figure out if the object of his attention would be impressed by him or not. (Me = not, by the way)
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2005 9:21:54 am PST #6791 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I figured that the daddy was the same sort of daddy in the phrase "sugar daddy" -- not quite a blood relation, though other fluids may be shared.