Lightning was great. That was the first Koontz I read and is basically why I kept reading him, though I never liked anything else by him as much.
I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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."
-t - Jan 11, 2011 2:04:21 pm PST #13552 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laga - Jan 11, 2011 2:12:07 pm PST #13553 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I can read a ghost story and totally love it but if I saw the same story as a movie I would have nightmares.
I am much more disturbed by stuff that can and did happen, like when I was reading World Without End, (set in the mid 14th century) I would find myself watching TV and thinking that a woman was about to get abused when she totally wasn't.
zuisa - Jan 11, 2011 2:54:01 pm PST #13554 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
That Bestsellers the week you were born thing is neat! It never would have occurred to me to look that up. I've got The Bourne Supermacy by Robert Ludlum. I haven't read anything on my list, but one is The Handmaid's Tale which I have always meant to read.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 2:58:35 pm PST #13555 of 28282
brillig
Is there a link people are looking these up at?
Laga - Jan 11, 2011 2:59:59 pm PST #13556 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 3:01:47 pm PST #13557 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What did Desmond Morris do wrong?
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 3:04:16 pm PST #13558 of 28282
brillig
Michener's Hawaii, Drury's Advise and Consent, Winnie the Pooh in Latin, and To Kill a Mockingbird. And Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. What a studious week that was. Though The Snake has All the Lines looks intriguing.
zuisa - Jan 11, 2011 3:05:08 pm PST #13559 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Winnie the Pooh in Latin? How interesting! Seems strange that that would be a bestseller, but I suppose I'm underestimating people.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 3:06:03 pm PST #13560 of 28282
brillig
In all fairness, Mockingbird is rated higher than the silly bear.
dcp - Jan 11, 2011 3:52:33 pm PST #13561 of 28282
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.