'Hell Bound'
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."
I just finished Feed, by Mira Grant, my friend's zombie political thriller, described as Transmetropolitan meets The West Wing meets Night of the Living Dead, which makes it a very Buffista book, in my opinion. Also adding to this opinion is the fact that John Rogers loved it. There is also a cool website. Well done, Orbit.
The book is awesome and I think everyone should read it.
I'm not a big fan of the book club concept, but I'm in need of some motivation to power through my longer "should reads" for the year ( War and Peace and Don Quixote especially), so I'm trying to start a book salon at work, where we would read any book that falls within a given topic (a specific author, nationality, or theme). That way, people could choose something long or short, or read multiple books. For example, if we’re reading Dickens, and you didn’t want to tackle something like Bleak House, you could read his Christmas stories, or, if we’re reading Russian authors, you could choose a play by Chekhov, short stories by Gogol, or something like Crime and Punishment.
I want to give a few suggestions of themes and books. So far I have good lists for Classic "Boys" Adventure (The Lost World, The Count of Monte Cristo, Kidnapped, etc) and Dystopias (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunger Games trilogy, Neuromancer, Brave New World, The Children of Men, V for Vendetta, 1984, etc.).
I also want to suggest "Quests" as a theme and need some more contemporary suggestions. So far I have:
Homer's
Odyssey
Don Quixote
Le Morte d’Arthur
The Lord of the Rings
Virgils'
Aeneid
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Beowulf
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Any "modern classic" ideas for this?
Maybe you should throw Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces in for discussion purposes?
Maybe you should throw Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces in for discussion purposes?
Don't think I didn't look there first for ideas! I figure when we actually get around to the theme, I will be reading that since it's been unread on my book shelf for years.
Watership Down.
Watership Down.
Oooh, good one. And a perfect excuse to re-read.
Rabbit Hill was the only bunny book I ever got around to. Except for Beatrix Potter stuff. And the Max and Ruby books, thanks to Sara.
No Bunnicula, Amy?!?! And The Celery Stalks at Midnight!
Not exactly a classic, but Stephen King's novella "The Body" (later became the movie Stand By Me) fits the quest theme.
No Bunnicula, Amy?!?! And The Celery Stalks at Midnight!
Oh, yes! I forgot! (Speaking of which, you have to read the bandom fic AU of Bunnicula, Sophia. Hysterical.)