Jane Eyre was on there. But Emily Dickinson is a huge omission! I guess it was tending towards fiction, but Dorothy Parker was on there, who I think of mostly as a poet and a quipper.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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."
Sue - Sep 26, 2008 8:41:59 am PDT #7555 of 28626
hip deep in pie
beth b - Sep 26, 2008 8:54:27 am PDT #7556 of 28626
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
24 books on the women's list
14 on the men's
Gone with the wind you have to read between age 13-and 15 to enjoy.
megan walker - Sep 26, 2008 9:25:29 am PDT #7557 of 28626
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
10 on the men's list. 6 of those were because they were assigned in high school (Rabbit, Run; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heart of Darkness; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Moby Dick; and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold).
sumi - Sep 26, 2008 9:49:05 am PDT #7558 of 28626
Art Crawl!!!
Well, it was a reader submitted list. It makes you wonder who the readers are who submitted book titles.
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2008 9:25:53 pm PDT #7559 of 28626
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Gone with the wind you have to read between age 13-and 15 to enjoy.
Heh. I first read it in sixth grade and loved it. I still go back and reread it every few years -- I don't love the same things that I loved then, but it's still a great story. Plus, I've now got the vocabulary to express exactly why I think Ashley's an idiot, whereas then, I mostly just got irritated without being able to explain why.
erikaj - Sep 26, 2008 10:49:12 pm PDT #7560 of 28626
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Hil is me, here. Although I don't really think Ashley and Scarlett were ever suited.
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2008 11:15:54 pm PDT #7561 of 28626
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I don't think we were supposed to think Ashley and Scarlett were suited.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 27, 2008 3:12:52 am PDT #7562 of 28626
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think that GWTW is somewhat important to read or see, because Rhett/Scarlett/Ashley seems to be the basis for a lot of love triangles in modern TV. But I am overinvested in the teen soap genre.
Jessica - Sep 27, 2008 5:21:50 am PDT #7563 of 28626
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Rhett/Scarlett/Ashley seems to be the basis for a lot of love triangles in modern TV.
Hee! Joey Potter is no Scarlett O'Hara, but Dawson & Pacey map pretty much perfectly.
Fay - Sep 27, 2008 6:17:41 am PDT #7564 of 28626
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I tried to read Gone with the Wind but never got very far. I had the impression that the love triangle was a bit like the one in Wuthering Heights? But I may be off base there?