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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Amy - Jul 04, 2011 10:07:45 am PDT #15514 of 28769
Because books.

I get a little sniffly every time I read Beth getting the piano from Mr. Lawrence in Little Women.

Other books that made me sob, although I don't reread them, are My Sister's Keeper, The Time-Traveler's Wife, and The Sweet, Far Thing (although I probably will reread that trilogy at some point). Also cried more than once reading The Hunger Games trilogy.

Laga - Jul 04, 2011 10:09:07 am PDT #15515 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Watership Down Hazel-rah!

Connie Neil - Jul 04, 2011 10:11:02 am PDT #15516 of 28769
brillig

Watership Down Hazel-rah!

Ahhh!! yes.

Though the best moment is when Bigwig drags himself up and says, "My Chief Rabbit told me to stop you here." And the other rabbits go, "Shit! He's *not* the Chief Rabbit??? There's someone *he* takes orders from???"

Dana - Jul 04, 2011 10:14:24 am PDT #15517 of 28769
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Oh, Anne of Green Gables is a good one. I don't generally reread things that make me cry.

Possibly Harry Potter.

Steph L. - Jul 04, 2011 10:15:28 am PDT #15518 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

The Sweet, Far Thing (although I probably will reread that trilogy at some point).

I re-read the trilogy last year and just stopped before the end. Because I knew it would leave me an utter, gibbering mess.

Beverly - Jul 04, 2011 10:30:52 am PDT #15519 of 28769
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

All of those are--you realize there's a whole raft of books I'm never reading again, right? For the crying thing. As well as ones I won't read again because they were awful, and the ones I won't even finish--and that's huge for me, because for many, too many years, if I started it I had to finish it. Till one day I realized I'd never read all the books I wanted to, so why was I reading stuff unworthy of my time? I still feel guilty rereading favorites--time! Time I should spend on reading new stuff! But comfort reading is important, so I still do reread.

ANYway. Erin, Pawn in Frankincense is the fourth volume in Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles.

Amy - Jul 04, 2011 10:31:43 am PDT #15520 of 28769
Because books.

Oh god, I forgot Harry Potter. Sobbed at the end of both six and seven.

Because I knew it would leave me an utter, gibbering mess.

Yeah, that's my fear. I actually want to read her new books before I reread the trilogy -- I have Going Bovine and I need to get Beauty Queens.

Scrappy - Jul 04, 2011 10:36:14 am PDT #15521 of 28769
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Beverly - Jul 04, 2011 10:36:58 am PDT #15522 of 28769
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I still have not read Deathly Hallows. And yes, I've seen Pt. 1 and will see Pt. 2. Somehow, in this instance, I'd rather watch than read. I know it's going to be bad, but I just couldn't bring myself to read the final book. Yet.

Steph L. - Jul 04, 2011 10:43:27 am PDT #15523 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

All of those are--you realize there's a whole raft of books I'm never reading again, right? For the crying thing.

Confession: I have never read Watership Down and probably never will. Because of the crying thing.

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