Sadly reading Vergil's Aeneid in high school forever stigmatized learning about Roman History for me. Though if there had been visual aids of the James Purefoy showing the Full Monty variety back then, I might have overcome the stigma...
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2005 5:31:01 am PST #9426 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
sumi - Nov 08, 2005 5:37:16 am PST #9427 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Science Fiction Weekly interview with George R.R. Martin.
Apparently, A Feast for Crows is the topselling Science Fiction/Fantasy book on Amazon - or was on November 4th. I went to the library and cleared up my fines in anticipation of it - I'm 4th on the waiting list for the book.
lisah - Nov 08, 2005 7:23:24 am PST #9428 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Though if there had been visual aids of the James Purefoy showing the Full Monty variety back then, I might have overcome the stigma...
oh hell yeah
meara - Nov 08, 2005 3:27:23 pm PST #9429 of 10002
Can I just say that I second/third/whatever the "I love this board" on the above discussion? Hee. It makes me want to go be knowledgeable about Roman emporers, a subject I had no interest in 20 minutes ago!
DavidS - Nov 09, 2005 8:57:14 am PST #9430 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's a great series running currently in Slate on book hunting in Britain. (Make sure you go back and read the Mon. and Tues. entries as well.)
Today the author visits Chatsworth, and the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (aka, the last of the Mitford sisters).
It's plummy and quirky and British and will make you all drool with the book lust.
We move on to the library, the grandest of several in the house, with its gilded ceiling, velvet curtains, and huge cases filled with the jewels of English literature and history. Noble pulls down some of the incunabula, early printed books from the 15th century. A couple of dozen Caxtons and the four Shakespeare folios went to the Huntington Library in California to pay death duties after the eighth duke died in 1908. But what's left is really not bad—the four elephant folios of Audubon's Birds of America, an Aldine of Petrarch made for a Medici princess, and 25 Groliers, which are the most beautiful and famous bindings from the 16th century. Jane Austen firsts are displayed in the famous sculpture room.
Connie Neil - Nov 09, 2005 9:53:31 am PST #9431 of 10002
brillig
the grandest of several in the house
Several.
Whimper.
DavidS - Nov 09, 2005 9:56:41 am PST #9432 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Bay Area Writers and Their Writing Rooms (Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown)
erikaj - Nov 09, 2005 10:04:16 am PST #9433 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Two thoughts: None of them have FrankenTim in their offices, which I do.(no wonder people say I've gotten "confessional" lately.) And I'm a big idiot because I always thought "Lemony Snicket" was a character in those books, not the author's pseud.
Amy - Nov 09, 2005 10:04:59 am PST #9434 of 10002
Because books.
Good article, Hec. I just totally stole a Flaubert quote "Lemony Snicket" offered as a tag.
Kate P. - Nov 09, 2005 10:11:41 am PST #9435 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
erika, Lemony Snicket is sort of a peripheral character in the books, if it makes you feel any better.