I don't suppose you could swing back on your way home and check to see if they have V For Vendetta?
Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think
it was bad; it might have been Latin.
'Selfless'
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."
JZ - Jul 29, 2005 12:00:26 pm PDT #8755 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
DavidS - Jul 29, 2005 12:11:49 pm PDT #8756 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't suppose you could swing back on your way home and check to see if they have V For Vendetta?
I know they've got it at Virgin (15% off too) so I'll stop on the way home.
Fay - Jul 29, 2005 12:43:27 pm PDT #8757 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
JZ! Synchronicity - I just read V for Vendetta yesterday for the first time.
DAMN fine book.
Hec got to Summerland before me...it's sitting on my bookshelf precisely because it seems pitched at people who love baseball. Which - not so much me. (Baseball is rounders, but more so, as I understand it. But with added passion and formality and tribal stuff. Which I applaud, but which is about as alien to me as cheerleading.) But I've heard good things about it, and do plan to have another crack at getting into it.
Consuela - Jul 29, 2005 6:13:39 pm PDT #8758 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I liked Summerland well enough, but as a long-time sf/fantasy reader, I didn't think it was as creative and original as many did. Which is not to say it's not good. I adored Kavalier and Clay, though.
sumi - Jul 29, 2005 9:16:34 pm PDT #8759 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I'm so glad you found Howl's Moving Castle ! It's a crime that they didn't reprint it in time for the movie.
DavidS - Jul 29, 2005 9:18:08 pm PDT #8760 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm so glad you found Howl's Moving Castle ! It's a crime that they didn't reprint it in time for the movie.
The crime of Stupidity! They could have made a lot of money for Diana.
JZ has absconded with the book and I won't see it until Monday though.
Volans - Jul 29, 2005 11:20:07 pm PDT #8761 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I too need to find a copy of V for Vendetta. A friend loaned me his a few years ago, and can't find it now. I'm sure I returned it, because I went through all my books when we moved, but he wants to re-read before the movie and buying him a new copy is a small price to pay to make the other one turn up.
Kathy A - Jul 30, 2005 12:41:25 am PDT #8762 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Everytime I hear that title (V for Vendetta), I keep thinking it's the next Sue Grafton mystery.
Nutty - Jul 30, 2005 2:34:58 am PDT #8763 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Not just bios of sports figures. There's quite a bit of sports-related stuff out there that isn't bios.
Oh, yes. I've come to peruse quite a number of nonfiction books I might otherwise have missed. And in general, it's easier to sell a preteen boy on nonfiction than fiction. (I don't know why, but this tendency is not as pronounced among girls.)
Baseball is rounders, but more so, as I understand it. But with added passion and formality and tribal stuff.
Baseball is all I know about rounders. And, yeah. Lots of formality and tribal stuff, and also statistics.
I liked Summerland well enough, but
Ditto. It was breezy, fun, pleasant, but in the end it felt rather like piffle, to me.
sumi - Jul 30, 2005 4:47:02 am PDT #8764 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The brand new Science fiction + Fantasy reading group that is starting at my library is reading "V for Vendetta" this fall - just before the movie comes out.