Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


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."


hippocampus - Nov 28, 2007 11:59:32 am PST #4379 of 28706
not your mom's socks.

I have an extreme preference for British accents, regardless of genre.

bonny - I don't know if she is available on Disc World, or even within your taste range, but I remember being awed the sheer sound of one particular author/reader on a long commute ages ago: Nadime Gordimer. It was some of her short stories - but I don't think it mattered.


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2007 12:03:08 pm PST #4380 of 28706
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't recall who read the Dexter that I'm currently listening to, but he's annoying. If I had any hope of getting the book itself out of the library itseld I'd go that way instead.


beekaytee - Nov 28, 2007 12:29:31 pm PST #4381 of 28706
Compassionately intolerant

Dexter that I'm currently listening to

Nick Landrum? Sounds familiar...good to avoid.

Nadine Gordimer

Sounds lovely, AND a Nobel winner. Great recommendation.


Strega - Nov 28, 2007 1:26:26 pm PST #4382 of 28706

The NEA's new report on reading patterns in the U.S.: [link] (pdf)

Short version: fewer people are reading; fewer people can read; this is bad.


Polter-Cow - Nov 28, 2007 1:31:52 pm PST #4383 of 28706
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, crap. J.K. Rowling isn't trying hard enough.


hippocampus - Nov 29, 2007 5:14:08 am PST #4384 of 28706
not your mom's socks.

Is anyone here a McSweeney's subscriber?


lisah - Nov 29, 2007 5:41:03 am PST #4385 of 28706
Punishingly Intricate

but I remember being awed the sheer sound of one particular author/reader on a long commute ages ago: Nadime Gordimer.

isn't she South African?


hippocampus - Nov 29, 2007 5:42:03 am PST #4386 of 28706
not your mom's socks.

isn't she South African?

yes she is.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 29, 2007 5:56:11 am PST #4387 of 28706
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I don't recall who read the Dexter that I'm currently listening to, but he's annoying. If I had any hope of getting the book itself out of the library itseld I'd go that way instead.

They so should have gotten Michael C. Hall to do those.


Scrappy - Nov 29, 2007 8:41:07 am PST #4388 of 28706
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

We are, Sox.