I'm still troubled when I catch Reading Rainbow and see his actual eyes.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
flea - Apr 24, 2007 9:13:27 am PDT #2632 of 28690
information libertarian
dcp - Apr 24, 2007 9:26:53 am PDT #2633 of 28690
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section
James Doohan did a series of three with S. M. Stirling that are pretty good space opera.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 4:09:54 pm PDT #2634 of 28690
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ages ago, Lee recommended a non-fiction book about a shipwreck. Was it In the Heart of the Sea, or something else? [link]
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 4:47:59 pm PDT #2635 of 28690
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nope-- it was a Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. [link]
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 5:02:23 pm PDT #2636 of 28690
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Cool. I didn't think that was it, but I couldn't remember. Now I have another to read.
When I'm up to another shipwreck, anyway. This one was excellent, really gripping, but harrowing.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2007 8:11:41 pm PDT #2637 of 28690
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ship of Gold is more about the hunt for the shipwreck one hundred years later than it is about the wreck itself. Well, it's about that, but the part I liked the best was about finding it, and the battle over the salvage rights.
Yes, I studied the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in law school. t /geek
... which, consider what I do for a living, is pretty damned ironic. Or prophetic, or something. Something poetic.
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 8:21:32 pm PDT #2638 of 28690
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What she said, though I did enjoy the part leading up to the wreck, too, especially the SF history, and I loved the captain.
sumi - Apr 26, 2007 10:33:36 am PDT #2639 of 28690
Art Crawl!!!
I wanted the deluxe edition of Children of Hurin because of the Alan Lee illustrations but I realized that I couldn't afford it and the regular edition had the classic Tolkien map in it after all - so I got the regular edition.
Guess what? The regular edition is also illustrated by Alan Lee.
hippocampus - Apr 27, 2007 9:52:37 am PDT #2640 of 28690
not your mom's socks.
Sparky suggested I visit over here to ask if anyone's read Vellum or Ink ? Still new to the multithread.
eta: italics
Steph L. - Apr 29, 2007 6:49:42 pm PDT #2641 of 28690
That which does not kill you should RUN
Finished Barrayar today.
Damn, that was good. Tense, though -- I was holding my breath for, like, the last 1/4 of the book. Good stuff.