Here is how much of a nerd I am: I kind of want the Barrayaran Military Academy t-shirt available here: [link]
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Jesse - May 25, 2008 4:55:40 pm PDT #5886 of 28476
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - May 25, 2008 5:01:31 pm PDT #5887 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh! I want ALL of them!
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:09:23 pm PDT #5888 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I stopped after The Vor Game, and really need to get back to them.
But I just started To Say Nothing of the Dog today, and am already sucked in. (Though I wonder if I should re-read Three Men in a Boat before I go any further, because although I read it in college, well, that *was* 21 years ago [egad!], and I can't remember one single thing about it.)
What say you all? Re-read Three Men in a Boat? Or press on with To Say Nothing of the Dog?
meara - May 25, 2008 5:11:43 pm PDT #5889 of 28476
Press on! Then re-read Three Men, THEN re-read To Say Nothing!!
Because, um, I've never read Three Men. And still quite enjoyed To Say Nothing. And keep thinking I should read Three Men, and then re-read To Say Nothing, and haven't, yet.
brenda m - May 25, 2008 5:21:08 pm PDT #5890 of 28476
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
What she said.
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:24:26 pm PDT #5891 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I can guarantee that if I read To Say Nothing *first,* and then Three Men, I will NOT re-read To Say Nothing. Not that soon, when there's so many other books wanting to be read.
Ginger - May 25, 2008 5:33:00 pm PDT #5892 of 28476
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are many, many books wanting to be read, and yet I've read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" five or six times. I don't think a recent reading of "Three Men" is necessary; you'll recognize them. Have you read "Gaudy Night?" It's a big part of the book too.
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:43:38 pm PDT #5893 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Have you read "Gaudy Night?" It's a big part of the book too.
No -- Georgette Heyer? I've heard of it, but never read any Heyer. Will my reading of To Say Nothing suffer if I don't read Gaudy Night?
amych - May 25, 2008 5:44:39 pm PDT #5894 of 28476
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Dorothy Sayers
Steph L. - May 25, 2008 5:58:21 pm PDT #5895 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dorothy Sayers
Wow. I was way out of the ballpark on that one. I can't explain the connection my brain made, that I thought Heyer wrote Gaudy Night.