Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
We went to see a movie last night and I saw the trailer for Lincoln Lawyer based on the Michael Connelly book.
The full trailer spoiled the ENTIRE book. I could not believe it. There are scenes from the movie in the trailer that happen very late in the book.
Contributers to Teeth talk about whether they'd like to be a vampire for a month. (And there are two videos at that link.)
Are book genres being replaced by affinity clusters? An IO9 reprint.
Of a guy who's never heard of Barbara Cartland or Harold Robbins. And who misspells Gaiman and Rowling.
I, however, had not heard of George Simenon.
I hadn't heard of Simenon, either.
I wonder how old (young) the author is that he had never heard of Cartland or Robbins.
I have heard of Simenon; mysteries, I think.
I've never heard of Cartland, Robbins, or Simenon.
Simenon is the only one of those three I've read.
Eta: I've heard of all of them, though. Those are ubiquitous names, or were.
Barbara Cartland was sort of the heiress to Georgette Heyer, and one of the forebears of the modern romance. Harold Robbins wrote big sexy potboiler family dramas. Both HUGE in the 1970s.
::grabs cane and hobbles far away from P-C::
Cartland was like Heyer for dumb people. Well, not dumb--my grad school apartment-mate, who was getting her masters in biophysics at MIT, read them. But they aren't good books.
I wonder how old (young) the author is that he had never heard of Cartland or Robbins.
Me, too. They were probably the authors most cited as examples of the poor taste of the masses from the '60s into the '80s. Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers was the first book I read with sex in it. Simenon and Cartland were both amazingly prolific.