my favorite is Owen meany, and oddly ( i guess) the water method man leaves me cold
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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."
beth b - Dec 27, 2011 9:34:16 am PST #17233 of 28282
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Sophia Brooks - Dec 27, 2011 9:42:53 am PST #17234 of 28282
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Water Method Man always makes me want to pee (for obvious reasons)
Fred Pete - Dec 27, 2011 10:04:49 am PST #17235 of 28282
Ann, that's a ferret.
It was hard to vote for only one, but I went with The Woman in White. I guess I love the Victorian novel too much.
Strix - Dec 27, 2011 10:12:32 am PST #17236 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It won't let me comment, but I vote for "Never Let Me Go" (although I love it, I love the sly, dry as a bone wit in "The Remains of the Day" better -- it is funny AND heartbreaking, but the second time you read it, it is MUCh more satisfying), "Oryx & Crake" and then "Lolita" and after you read Lolita, you should read "Reading Lolita in Tehran."
Lolita is an excellent example of innovative content AND lush language styling.
Also, as far as fun SF/F, I like Simon R. Green for popcorn SF and F quite a lot. And Lois McMasters Bujold, and did anyone mention Octavia Butler? I am multitasking, and now much go make M do writing homework and get chili started.
I do not care for Asimov, but concede his ideas are canonical for the genre, sucked up Heinlein as a girl and still re-read, agree Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is creepy as fuck, and I want Stephen King to re-write Jane Eyre now.
Off to chilify!
Amy - Dec 27, 2011 10:20:42 am PST #17237 of 28282
Because books.
I need to reread The Yellow Wallpaper soon. Also Herland, which wasn't as good, but is still fascinating.
I think if I had to recommend a book to anyone to read, one of my top picks would be Margaret Lawrence's Hearts and Bones and then the two that followed, Blood Red Roses and The Burning Bride. They're historical mysteries set after the Revolutionary War, and Hannah Trevor, an educated midwife in a small town in Maine, is the protagonist. Aside from the mysteries, the historical detail is incredible, and really gritty, and the prose is just beautiful. Plus, Hannah is kickass, despite her many reasons to be melancholy and resentful. Such a good series.
There's a fourth one that's more loosely related, The Ice Weaver, and it's also gorgeous, but almost painfully so. For one, it's set in the dead of winter, and you really feel it, and it also follows a character you knew as a child in the other books, and what happens to her is heartbreaking. I haven't actually finished that one -- I keep meaning to read it in the summer, or when I don't feel like it's going to shatter me.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2011 11:37:00 am PST #17238 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yellow Wallpaper for those who want it on their ebooks.
(Though I'd be a little afraid of the pattern invading my ebook and sucking me in. "The Yellow Kindle"!)
le nubian - Dec 27, 2011 2:10:04 pm PST #17239 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Has Cloud Atlas been discussed here? I am thinking about picking it up.
Polter-Cow - Dec 27, 2011 2:12:26 pm PST #17240 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've been intrigued by it from the description. It seems like a book I'd dig. But it's long, so I haven't given it a shot yet.
le nubian - Dec 27, 2011 2:26:42 pm PST #17241 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The movie comes out soon, so I hope to finish it before the movie.
megan walker - Dec 27, 2011 2:36:23 pm PST #17242 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has Cloud Atlas been discussed here? I am thinking about picking it up.
Shoot, I meant to put that on my list. Ah, well.
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