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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."

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Nutty - Jul 11, 2005 7:29:19 am PDT #8102 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

So that Kate P. knows she is not alone, I bought a copy of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners over the weekend. I fully anticipate its being really cool and mind-bendy.

It does not include the story "Monsters," of which I have heard the first half and not the second half. That is forthcoming in September, in a McSweeney's collection for young adults, edited by Daniel Handler. The title is something impenetrably long, so long that Kelly could only wave her hands vaguely and recall that there was a "and this other thing we don't have a name for" at the end of it.

Kate P. - Jul 11, 2005 7:42:04 am PDT #8103 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Hey, cool, I'll have to track down that McSweeney's collection. She's also got a story in another YA anthology that isn't in either of her collections: "Swans" in A Wolf at the Door (see her website).

sumi - Jul 11, 2005 8:27:42 am PDT #8104 of 10002

Art Crawl!!!

Michelle Trachtenberg is playing the main character in the Lifetime Movie of The Dive from Clausen's Pier. . . Sean Maher is playing Kilroy and Will Estes is playing Mike.

MT is in no way old enough to play Carrie, right?

-t - Jul 11, 2005 2:38:21 pm PDT #8105 of 10002

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Does anyone have any recommendations for books to give an 11 year old boy who likes Pratchett?

ChiKat - Jul 11, 2005 2:43:58 pm PDT #8106 of 10002

That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

The Messenger by Lois Lowrey

The Golden Compass books (there are 3) by Philip Pullman

Katie M - Jul 11, 2005 2:49:17 pm PDT #8107 of 10002

I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Adams, obviously. Um. Funny fantasy stuff I was reading at that age... Asprin. Craig Shaw Gardner. I adored Tanith Lee's The Dragon's Hoard around that time, though I don't know that it has quite the same silliness vibe. (Haven't read it in years.)

That's all that appears off the top of my head.

-t - Jul 11, 2005 2:51:22 pm PDT #8108 of 10002

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks! I'm trying to add one more book to his birthday order to get super saver shipping.

ChiKat - Jul 11, 2005 2:54:59 pm PDT #8109 of 10002

That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

[Note: my above-mentioned suggestions are great fantasy, but not funny fantasy.]

-t - Jul 11, 2005 3:07:05 pm PDT #8110 of 10002

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So noted. i'm gonna try the Golden Compass and see what he thinks. He's already getting two Pratchetts.

Mr. Broom - Jul 11, 2005 3:23:19 pm PDT #8111 of 10002

"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

If he's at all into the heavier stuff, and particularly if he's the bookish sort, I'd suggest Ender's Game, provided this wasn't patently obvious at the outset.

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