javachik, which has been your favorite so far?
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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."
sj - Jan 09, 2011 3:54:37 pm PST #13474 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
javachik - Jan 09, 2011 6:17:08 pm PST #13475 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
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.
sj - Jan 10, 2011 9:44:31 am PST #13476 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
javachik - Jan 10, 2011 10:07:17 am PST #13477 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
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.
sj - Jan 10, 2011 10:22:11 am PST #13478 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
javachik - Jan 10, 2011 10:23:46 am PST #13479 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
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.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2011 10:26:20 am PST #13480 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The version I read was the big uncut revised edition with an extra hundred pages or whatever. I loved it.
Amy - Jan 10, 2011 10:27:02 am PST #13481 of 28282
Because books.
The uncut version is the one with "Happy crappy"! God, I love that book. I should read it again.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2011 10:28:15 am PST #13482 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The original version didn't have "happy crappy" everywhere? Huh!
Amy - Jan 10, 2011 10:32:21 am PST #13483 of 28282
Because books.
I'm pretty sure in the edited version there was no Trashcan Man or any of that, yeah.