Ben AFFLECK?
the FUCK? What's the matter, Gwynneth Paltrow wasn't available???
Jebus.
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
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."
deborah grabien - Feb 13, 2004 6:35:39 am PST #777 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jesse - Feb 13, 2004 7:47:02 am PST #778 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I'm reading this book The Dante Club, which is basically about Longfellow and them tracking down a serial killer who is taking inspiration from the Divine Comedy (apparently; I'm only half-way through). It's entertaining enough, in an RPF kind of way, but can I just say how confusing it is to be reading a mystery story with a main character named Holmes, but it's Oliver Wendell, not Sherlock? Very confusing. I keep thinking, "Wait! Holmes isn't short -- oh, right. Wendell. Short. Got it."
Vortex - Feb 13, 2004 7:56:15 am PST #779 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
heh. i felt the same way, jesse!
Jesse - Feb 13, 2004 7:59:36 am PST #780 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm also bitter that the author is younger than me, but I guess that just means it's time to realize that I'm not too young to have accomplished anything significant.
Java cat - Feb 13, 2004 11:30:08 am PST #781 of 10002
Not javachik
I read a blurb in Cody's Books' newsletter and thought Buffistas would be interested in this: [link]
(dunno why it won't take you to the book, but it takes you to Cody's and you can search the title. Sorry)
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
What underlies the human ability, desire, and even compulsion to write? Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. As a leading neurologist at a major research hospital, Flaherty writes from the front lines of brain research.
Strix - Feb 13, 2004 12:06:36 pm PST #782 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I brave the scorn to say I really enjoyed the hell out of Carey's books. But I also read superfast, so boring parts aren't frustrating to me. But I really wasn't bored by a lot and I love the long multi-volume books, because they take me longer than a couple of hours to read. I thought they were fun.
Betsy, I read the new LKH on the plane, and I was also pleasantly surprised that it had a plot. It was perfect plane reading; interesting enough to make the time go by, but not so engrossing that I resented talking to my friend on and off. But you're right, Superpowers abound, and didn't it crack you up that at the end of the book, Merry has SIXTEEN supernatural studs sleeping with her?! My GOD! I mean, go sex, choose sex, but OUCH!
erikaj - Feb 13, 2004 12:15:02 pm PST #783 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Holy bladder infection, Batman!
Betsy HP - Feb 13, 2004 12:18:25 pm PST #784 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Absolutely, Erin. And who the hell sleeps in the wet spot, which must be approximately the size of Taiwan?
It would also be nice if Hamilton explained just how Merry, who is sleeping with a different Elven-stud every night, is going to KNOW who the daddy was.
Strix - Feb 13, 2004 12:46:33 pm PST #785 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Betsy, I didn't think about that! BUt I'm sure she'll just "know."
It boggles the crotch, doesn't it, Erika?!
Hee. "Size of Taiwan."
Hee.
Susan W. - Feb 13, 2004 1:02:26 pm PST #786 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I brave the scorn to say I really enjoyed the hell out of Carey's books. But I also read superfast, so boring parts aren't frustrating to me. But I really wasn't bored by a lot and I love the long multi-volume books, because they take me longer than a couple of hours to read. I thought they were fun.
Oh, me too. It was late in the second book before I really had all my de Somervilles and Trevalions and L'Enverses straight, but I totally enjoyed the ride. But few things make me happier than discovering a new long multivolume series that hits one of my sweet spots as a reader.