talisman was a quest, but a rather boring one.
Heretic!
Okay, I adored it at the time. But it's been 20 years.
Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
§ ita § - May 13, 2010 2:15:16 pm PDT #11401 of 28597
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sophia Brooks - May 13, 2010 3:06:44 pm PDT #11402 of 28597
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In college my pleasure reading was only short stories or plays, I could not handle books. I read several Steven King collections, and all I really remember is being terrified of rats and/or fish that lived in caves and mutated to have no eyes, or wings or whatever. I hate mutation!
Kat - May 13, 2010 4:50:05 pm PDT #11403 of 28597
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Moby Dick as quest.
I have to say, I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.
JZ - May 13, 2010 4:56:38 pm PDT #11404 of 28597
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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.
Huh. I kind of thoroughly adored it. I don't know if one needs to be a girl starved for girl-centered quests to adore it, but it definitely entranced me. And even more so on re-reading a year or so ago.
So, YTGWLTGMV.
Ginger - May 13, 2010 5:01:23 pm PDT #11405 of 28597
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.
Yesss. Join me on the dark side.
DavidS - May 13, 2010 5:02:37 pm PDT #11406 of 28597
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.
One of us. Gabba Gabba Hey.
Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:24:29 pm PDT #11407 of 28597
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Watching the American Experience on whaling this week made me want to re-read it for the first time ever.
Kat - May 13, 2010 5:29:16 pm PDT #11408 of 28597
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse, I'm reading it as part of NPRs I will if you will book club. Best concept ever.
Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:35:49 pm PDT #11409 of 28597
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's hilarious.
Kat - May 13, 2010 5:37:10 pm PDT #11410 of 28597
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse: [link] the latest blog post about it. I agree. Whale fatigue has set in.
Their first I Will If You Will book, interestingly, was Twilight!