But I was amused when I saw Raquel say "I often buy books just for their page count", cause that's so what I"m doing here
Pfft. I have never seen you pick up a book that was skinnier than a grapefruit.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'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."
DavidS - Jun 08, 2005 9:45:20 pm PDT #7840 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Jun 09, 2005 4:07:15 am PDT #7841 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am impressed that you found an English-language used book store in Saigon!
meara - Jun 09, 2005 5:24:30 am PDT #7842 of 10002
Oh sure (hi, I'm in Singapore right now...la la la the tagline that lasts forever...), there were ladies wandering the streets with a stack of plastic wrapped books (I mean to say, teh whole stack was plastic-wrapped as one, which puzzled me, as I don't think they were trying to sell the whole STACK). Mostly travel books, and not necessarily all in English, but....
Yeah the used bookstore was a block from my hotel. It was in the back of a travel agency. It had English and German and French and Chinese...
Hec, I've totally read small books! Just...very quickly. So quickly you may not have seen me read them. :)
Volans - Jun 09, 2005 9:59:00 pm PDT #7843 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I had a John Dunning moment yesterday. I was at the embassy, waiting for the consulate hours to start so I could pick up the baby's passport. There's not a lot of places to hang out and wait there, so I decided to go look at the lending library. I've pretty much completed the SF/Fantasy shelves and most of the fiction shelves, so I was desultorily looking at a non-fiction catch-all shelf.
And there, between a PJ O'Rouke and Martha Stewart's Just Desserts (which, ha!)...was The Story of the Stone, by Barry Hughart. The second Master Li book, nigh impossible to get these days. And it was in book club binding, which means it's been on the shelves here for 15 years, when the core of the library was laid in.
That's 2 plate-of-shrimp things between this board and my universe in the last week. I don't know what this means.
(I also found Bellairs' The House with a Clock in its Walls on the non-fiction shelf)
Megan E. - Jun 10, 2005 2:30:38 am PDT #7844 of 10002
I also found Bellairs' The House with a Clock in its Walls on the non-fiction shelf
I just got shivers. That is one of the spookiest YA books I've ever read and thinking that it might be non-fiction gives me the wiggins.
(I know it's not but it's still a scary thought.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 10, 2005 5:55:48 am PDT #7845 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oooooh. The Face in the Frost is one of my all-time favorite novels. I'm going to have to start looking for this one.
Megan E. - Jun 10, 2005 5:57:12 am PDT #7846 of 10002
Jessica - Jun 10, 2005 6:01:43 am PDT #7847 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Too cool!
Except, I could never live there. I'd be constantly poking holes in the walls to read things.
§ ita § - Jun 10, 2005 6:34:27 am PDT #7848 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd be constantly poking holes in the walls to read things.
They're not actually books.
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2005 6:43:33 am PDT #7849 of 10002
brillig
They're not actually books.
Which I was relieved to see, as I was starting to get very irate at the size of some of the "books" being incorporated into furniture. "A book that size has to be very, very old, and you're using it for furniture!?!?"