I thought Jean Auel was dead, when I thought of her at all.
I have to confess, I only read her books for the sex. Though once I started laughing at it, it was all over.
Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.
'Never Leave Me'
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."
Connie Neil - Nov 09, 2010 11:03:21 am PST #12882 of 28288
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Strix - Nov 09, 2010 11:26:26 am PST #12883 of 28288
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm a completeist. And, I admit, I have a certain amount of nostalgia for those books. I started reading them when I was...probably 10? So I will pony up the $25 every decade or so, just to see what happens.
I've certainly spent more money on worse things!
FWIW, I didn't mind the last one, but Plains of Passage was pretty boring. I just wanted to see what happened when they got back to France and Jondalar's family.
And when I was younger, I loved all of the detailed information about the Ice Age and herbalism and survival and such. Now? I'ma skip it: "Blah, blah, boneset, blah, blah, comfrey...I've read all your damn books, woman! I know how she sets a frickin' leg!"
Kathy A - Nov 09, 2010 11:39:35 am PST #12884 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've read all your damn books, woman! I know how she sets a frickin' leg!
Ha!
That was one of my biggest problems with that last book--it was just a rehash of so many things she'd already covered, from botany and Stone Age healing practices to all of the characters' personal issues. I was just so sick of it all, and the fact that it was written in a mindnumbingly boring fashion didn't help anything.
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 6:43:53 am PST #12885 of 28288
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I'm only 20 chapters into the first Hunger Games book and it already turned me into an emotional mess.
tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 7:11:58 am PST #12886 of 28288
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
understandable, zuisa! i was reading it at work one day and got to a part that made me cry. i had to turn around to make sure no one could see.
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 7:28:40 am PST #12887 of 28288
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
When I was reading last night I got to the part where Rue dies and Katniss sings to her and oh my goodness was I a mess. I hear that the other two books in the trilogy don't exactly get any happier so I am prepared for lots of sadness in my very near future.
Amy - Nov 10, 2010 7:30:04 am PST #12888 of 28288
Because books.
I was reading Catching Fire during Sara's swimming lesson last week, and got to a part that absolutely shocked me -- like take my breath away shock -- and teared up.
Luckily, it was so humid in there I don't think anyone noticed.
DawnK - Nov 10, 2010 7:58:59 am PST #12889 of 28288
giraffe mode
zuisa, I got to that part while I was eating lunch at Chipolte. Thankfully I could cover the tears with a fake hot salsa cough. Man, I finally had to not read them while out at lunch 'cause you never know when a gut punch is coming.
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2010 8:07:23 am PST #12890 of 28288
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read the second one on a really bad day and wept for miles. I'd like to call it healthy and cathartic, but I don't even know.
tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 8:32:37 am PST #12891 of 28288
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
that part killed me too, zuisa. i'm really fighting the urge to re-read all of them. i have a habit of zooming through books and then if i love them i instantly want to re-read.