Oh god, I love The Witching Hour. It's my favorite Anne Rice. And it's been packed in a box in the garage for five years now. I almost broke and picked up a used copy two different times.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 4:08:04 pm PDT #12014 of 28342
Because books.
Atropa - Aug 18, 2010 4:31:22 pm PDT #12015 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.
FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 4:41:05 pm PDT #12016 of 28342
Because books.
I do, I do!
sarameg - Aug 18, 2010 5:00:35 pm PDT #12017 of 28342
dcp, my childhood involved my dad reading the Hobbit through the whole LotR trilogy to me over breakfast starting in kinder. I've never touched the books since, but I LOVED it. I've only seen the first movie, because while it got some things right, I didn't want it to displace any of my memories/mental visuals of what my dad's voice reading it created. Gollum wasn't quite right, and I still resent that.
eta: My mom would read me Laura Ingalls Wilder to me at night during the same period. I never watched the show. Seems to be a pattern.
No idea my first book, nor when I started reading, will have to ask my mom. We had/have tons of books. I only found out recently my mother HATED Dr. Seuss and suffered mightily through our love of them, but sees his value. They just make her a little bored out of her gourd.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2010 5:04:17 pm PDT #12018 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had this Howdy Doody book that I was obsessed with, and my mother hated. I can only remember as far back as being able to read it myself, but I'm sure I made her read it to me. It was hilarious! They made a big Howdy Doody out of food! Hilarious when you're 4, anyway...
dcp - Aug 18, 2010 5:08:19 pm PDT #12019 of 28342
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Heh. Dad's Gollum-voice was pretty sinister, but very different from Andy Serkis's version.
Dad's put on his best faux-Cockney accent for the trolls Bert and Tom and William. Hilarious.
beth b - Aug 18, 2010 5:15:53 pm PDT #12020 of 28342
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Stress/comfort rereader too. I have been rereading Harry Potter at night, but a few other things during the day
Consuela - Aug 18, 2010 5:17:23 pm PDT #12021 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
How many books are in that series? Is there a drop off? Are they all worth it?
There's, um, five in the initial Tomorrow series. There's a bit of a dropoff; the last one is still exciting, but rather a downer. But my very favorite set-piece (a wild ride involving infiltrating an airfield, blowing up the fueling airplanes, and escaping in a dumptruck pursued by machine-gun-wielding enemies) is in the 3rd or 4th book, I think.
There's a second series set after the end of the first, but while it's psychologically very plausible, it's also much less fun.
I do a lot of rereading: particularly Bujold & Pratchett these days. I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2010 5:19:05 pm PDT #12022 of 28342
Dad didn't do voices so much as intonation. Though I can hear his Gollum, slowly, slithery, lispy in my head...
Ginger - Aug 18, 2010 5:27:28 pm PDT #12023 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life. I have mixed feelings about the second series, and it was definitely more depressing. I've read the Tomorrow books several times too.