Only an American paper would have the right to not indicate what country they were talking about, naturally.
What? You think there's only White and Male privilege?
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
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."
DavidS - Nov 19, 2005 7:01:03 am PST #9479 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2005 7:01:38 am PST #9480 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm from Jamaica. What do you think?
DavidS - Nov 19, 2005 7:04:05 am PST #9481 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm from Jamaica. What do you think?
Phew, that's such a good answer to so many retarded rhetorical questions.
erikaj - Nov 19, 2005 8:21:13 am PST #9482 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Especially with body language and skeptical expression included.
Emily - Nov 19, 2005 8:21:41 am PST #9483 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Randomly, I was searching the library for interesting math-teaching books on Wednesday and ran across a book on how to use a slide-rule (including a mention that computers did exist which could do all kinds of calculations, but that it would be both bulky and very inefficient to use them, like using an axe to swat a fly), written by Isaac Asimov. It was a bit startling.
Ginger - Nov 19, 2005 8:27:30 am PST #9484 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I still have my sliderule.
Emily - Nov 19, 2005 8:34:40 am PST #9485 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
That's nothing to be small-font about!
Volans - Nov 19, 2005 11:07:40 am PST #9486 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Hrm. I am not sure that Akshewl Litrachoor should be classified as Geek Books; it should transcend, really.
If I'd been asked to list geek books, the first three I would list didn't even make that list: Godel Escher Bach, A Brief History of Time, and Flatland.
Betsy HP - Nov 19, 2005 11:08:52 am PST #9487 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
A Brief History of Time
Widely rumored to be the least-read bestseller of all time. (Me: Guilty as charged.)
Aims - Nov 19, 2005 3:38:00 pm PST #9488 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So. I finally, much to MM's joy, Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.
I loved them. I'm weary to read the others as, from what I understand, they are aout adults and not the kids. I like that they are kids.