Warning to ita about the Dark Tower. One character in that who you will hate worse than a Magical Negro. Well, half a character.
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2011 12:42:04 pm PST #13540 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2011 12:43:57 pm PST #13541 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I got The War Lover, The Ugly American, Exodus and The Elements of Style. The Breaking Point.
JZ - Jan 11, 2011 1:00:39 pm PST #13542 of 28282
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I got quite the male-dominated list: John Updike, Arthur Hailey, Gore Vidal, Leon Uris, William Styron, JK Galbraith, Durrell, Michener and Desmond Morris (ah, The Naked Ape, how horrified will I be if I ever re-read you again? Not that I'm likely to.).
And Julia Child's The French Chef Cookbook.
erikaj - Jan 11, 2011 1:20:26 pm PST #13543 of 28282
Always Anti-fascist!
Mary Stewart and Jacqueline Susann (Basically every writer in a used-books store ever.)
javachik - Jan 11, 2011 1:34:01 pm PST #13544 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
I haven't read King in a long, long time, but his books have stayed with me more than a lot of the stuff I read in junior high. My dad had a whole shelf of King, and my parents didn't monitor my reading, so I burned through them the same way I did every other book in the house. I was probably too young for them-- I think I was 11 when I read Firestarter-- but I don't know what I'd think of the books now.
Yeah, I was 11 when it came out and read it right away. I think most of us who love King devoured him at pretty young ages. He writes in a very accessible way, so it's not really a surprise.
Rayne - Jan 11, 2011 1:40:50 pm PST #13545 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I hate Dark Tower with a fiery, fiery passion. I loved the first four books so much, but then the hatred started building until my head exploded at the end.
sj - Jan 11, 2011 1:44:28 pm PST #13546 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My birthday week was The Thorn Birds.
I've always been too scared to read King before, but I decided to give it a chance anyway. Salem's Lot did freak me out more than once. I thought Carrie was excellent, but it didn't really scare me for some reason.
And speaking of scary novels. I am currently reading What the Night Knows. Which is very scary, but the family is so Mary Sue that it is kind of sickening at times. The only other Koontz I have read is the novella Darkness Under the Sun which is sort of a prequel to the novel so I don't know if the Mary Sue heroes are typical for him or not.
javachik - Jan 11, 2011 1:46:56 pm PST #13547 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
Does anyone else have the thing where they're not scared of supernatural stuff at all, but serial killers or "normal" human stories where BAD things happen are actually way scarier?
sj - Jan 11, 2011 1:47:49 pm PST #13548 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Does anyone else have the thing where they're not scared of supernatural stuff at all, but serial killers or "normal" human stories where BAD things happen are actually way scarier?
I'm the opposite, but the way you are makes more sense to me.
Anne W. - Jan 11, 2011 1:52:15 pm PST #13549 of 28282
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Does anyone else have the thing where they're not scared of supernatural stuff at all, but serial killers or "normal" human stories where BAD things happen are actually way scarier?
Oh, hell yes. In fact, I find novels about mundane tragedies to be very hard going for emotional reasons, and not in a cathartic way either.