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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."

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Fred Pete - May 13, 2010 10:05:04 am PDT #11384 of 28344

Ann, that's a ferret.

Second The Stand. But there are two versions. When it was originally published during the '70s, editors trimmed quite a bit. He republished the original version in the early '90s, with the trimmed parts added back in.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon might qualify as a quest -- it's about a girl lost in the woods and trying to get out. But it seems kind of tangential to the quest theme, and it isn't very memorable.

Atropa - May 13, 2010 10:06:16 am PDT #11385 of 28344

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh, yes! I forgot! (Speaking of which, you have to read the bandom fic AU of Bunnicula, Sophia. Hysterical.)

What. WHAT?! WHY HAVE YOU NOT LINKED ME TO THIS?

Kathy A - May 13, 2010 10:07:10 am PDT #11386 of 28344

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The original version of The Stand has some great additional plotlines added back in (Trashcan Man comes to mind), but the 400 extra pages do make the story drag a lot more than the first published version did.

Amy - May 13, 2010 10:10:37 am PDT #11387 of 28344

Because books.

I love The Stand. One of my favorite books ever.

Trashcan Man comes to mind

"Hey there, Happy Crappy." Good times.

Sophia and Jilli, the link is here. It's just Panic, but it's adorable.

-t - May 13, 2010 10:11:46 am PDT #11388 of 28344

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I want to say Neuromancer, but I'm not sure it really fits.

DavidS - May 13, 2010 10:14:52 am PDT #11389 of 28344

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I want to say Neuromancer, but I'm not sure it really fits.

Yeah, I don't know if it's Dystopian when I want to live in that world.

-t - May 13, 2010 10:32:15 am PDT #11390 of 28344

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, I didn't mean dystopian, I meant quest.

megan walker - May 13, 2010 10:45:10 am PDT #11391 of 28344

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Neuromancer is already on the dystopian list.

ETA: And I'm just trying to come up with suggestions to give people ideas how this might work, not final reading lists.

-t - May 13, 2010 10:47:21 am PDT #11392 of 28344

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, man, all that thinking I did could have been avoided my better reading comprehension.

Eta: it often seems like every other book I read is a quest, and yet now I can't think of any.

Strix - May 13, 2010 10:50:50 am PDT #11393 of 28344

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

You might want to add Oryx and Crake and/or After The Flood (Atwood) to the dystopian list. I love Handmaid's Tale, but the later one's are, IMHO, drily hilarious, and really modern and terrifying, and all-too-plausible, with a more eco-focus. LOVE.

Quest...does it have to be a physical journey? Because I love Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison unreasonably, and it's a definite mental joun...yeah, I dunno if it fits. But you should all read it.

Brain fried, sense later.

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