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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."
I finished reading Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane today. It was even better than I was expecting, and I was expecting it to be quite good. It even made me sniffly at times.
SJ and Erika, my Lehane sisters! I'm reading all of the Angie/ Patrick books now (consecutively) and "Moonlight Mile" is next. I should finish "Prayers for Rain" tonight.
javachik, which has been your favorite so far?
sj, it's easier to say which one I hated! I thought "Sacred" started off so strongly, and that it would delve deeply into the Scientologyish organization, but it completely fell apart. I was so pissed. What a waste of time. I have found all of the others to be good for different reasons. As long as he stays away from sex scenes, I enjoy the hell out of the conversational approach to the mysteries. It's like Stephen King without the supernatural. I like the way he brings Boston to life. I guess I thought "Gone Baby Gone" was the smoothest, most polished piece. But it wasn't my favorite plot.
I think I loved Gone Baby Gone the best, but it was devastatingly sad at times. The current book picks up with the characters from that story. I agree that Sacred fell apart, so much so that I don't remember it very well.
I enjoy the hell out of the conversational approach to the mysteries.
Very much this, and I love all the Boston area references as well.
Very much this, and I love all the Boston area references as well.
I do, too. It's why he reminds me of Stephen King - he's explaining Boston to me the way King did Bangor. The other thing that reminds me so much of King is all of the pop culture references, although they risk sounding very dated at times and can pull me right out of a story.
I do, too. It's why he reminds me of Stephen King - he's explaining Boston to me the way King did Bangor. The other thing that reminds me so much of King is all of the pop culture references, although they risk sounding very dated at times and can pull me right out of a story.
I've just started reading King, and I can see the similarities.
I hadn't read any King in years and years until I downloaded his newest quartet of novellas onto the Kindle. I liked two of the stories very much. I downloaded The Stand to re-read, but I think it's a revised version; it doesn't seem like the same book.
The version I read was the big uncut revised edition with an extra hundred pages or whatever. I loved it.
The uncut version is the one with "Happy crappy"! God, I love that book. I should read it again.
The original version didn't have "happy crappy" everywhere? Huh!