Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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."


Alicia K - Aug 21, 2005 4:16:56 pm PDT #8984 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.

I can't read three books at once! ::insert winky thing here::

Seriously, though, thanks for the recs.


erikaj - Aug 21, 2005 5:26:51 pm PDT #8985 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

That movie wasn't very good to that book, Fay. But Rain is beautiful. Oh, "Still Life" is great too, though...I have sentimental reasons for preferring "Cowgirls" having seen myself in Sissy Hankshaw.


Jessica - Aug 21, 2005 5:50:23 pm PDT #8986 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I started with Jitterbug Perfume, but Still Life is also really good.


Emily - Aug 22, 2005 4:31:56 am PDT #8987 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I couldn't finish Jitterbug. I loved Woodpecker, though -- it's part of my senior thesis.


Kate P. - Aug 22, 2005 5:45:18 am PDT #8988 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Really, any of his early novels would do you fine. The three mentioned here are probably my favorites. I think I started with Woodpecker.


Volans - Aug 22, 2005 6:11:12 am PDT #8989 of 10002
move out and draw fire

I started with Still Life with Woodpecker and it remains my favorite.


Megan E. - Aug 22, 2005 7:34:02 am PDT #8990 of 10002

Scary book

Help! Mom! There are Liberals under my Bed!


Kate P. - Aug 22, 2005 7:41:59 am PDT #8991 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Whoa.


Calli - Aug 22, 2005 7:48:09 am PDT #8992 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Maybe there should be a counter book, where the kids start a lemonade stand and their customers all die from the mercury in the water they used to make the lemonade. Then when they try to figure out where the mercury came from, a Bush Minion accuses them of disloyalty to Corporate American values, and sends them to Gitmo, sans trial.


erikaj - Aug 22, 2005 7:50:29 am PDT #8993 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

That's seriously fucked up. And unfunny. No wonder we dominate entertainment.