Anyone reading Anansi Boys? Dear god, I am LOVING it.
You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.
Fred ,'Life of the Party'
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."
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2005 4:59:50 pm PDT #9223 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
DebetEsse - Oct 09, 2005 5:01:01 pm PDT #9224 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I am, and I am. I'm maybe 2/3 through. Very fun. I do think I liked American Gods more, though.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2005 5:05:08 pm PDT #9225 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm maybe 2/3 of the way through, too. I may go back and re-read American Gods when I'm finished. I really liked American Gods, but it was also intellectually tough slogging, for me.
P.M. Marc - Oct 09, 2005 5:18:34 pm PDT #9226 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I fear my book budget only stretched to Thud! for new releases.
I am JEALOUS of you Anansi Boy havers, though.
DebetEsse - Oct 09, 2005 5:20:39 pm PDT #9227 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It and Coraline are the only two books I've bought for myself in months. I love my library.
Waiting for the library to get SoUE 12 into their system rather than this "on order" crap, would be nice, though
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2005 5:21:11 pm PDT #9228 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I got it from the library, as I am NOT one of the Buffistas who eschew the library since they can't stand to give the books back.
DebetEsse - Oct 09, 2005 5:23:31 pm PDT #9229 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Me, neither. I'd rather have broadband and Netflix.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2005 5:29:55 pm PDT #9230 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I buy print media on a regular basis, but it's comics. Grown-up books have fallen by the wayside. Or are obtained at the crack den that is Half-Price Books.
Laura - Oct 09, 2005 5:35:13 pm PDT #9231 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
I tried to sell my book group on Anansi Boys but they didn't go for it. If they don't pick it up for next time I'll go ahead and read it for myself. It sounds entertaining.
Jessica - Oct 09, 2005 5:54:49 pm PDT #9232 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's definitely on my list, but in a paperback kind of way unless my dad buys it for me. (My dad and I always give each other books for our birthdays, which are a week apart, and the last three years, we've given each other the same book. It's becoming a game -- who can buy it for the other one before they buy it for themselves! Race to the Borders!)
I still haven't gotten around to American Gods -- when it first came out, I heard from a few people that it was a lot of the same ground he'd already covered in Brief Lives, and I've never thought his regular novels were as well-written as his graphic ones.