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.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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 28432
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 28432
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 28432
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 28432
brillig
Is there a link people are looking these up at?
Laga - Jan 11, 2011 2:59:59 pm PST #13556 of 28432
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 3:01:47 pm PST #13557 of 28432
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 28432
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 28432
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 28432
brillig
In all fairness, Mockingbird is rated higher than the silly bear.
dcp - Jan 11, 2011 3:52:33 pm PST #13561 of 28432
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.