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.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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."
Kathy A - May 13, 2010 10:07:10 am PDT #11386 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Kat - May 13, 2010 12:27:24 pm PDT #11394 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
For quests, Siddhartha.
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
AGREED.
Beverly - May 13, 2010 12:57:47 pm PDT #11395 of 28344
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
King writes long well, but my favorite of his is a collection of shorts, Night Shift. Scary stuff in small packages. Gray Matter has stuck with me for a very long time. As has the title story.