I bought one of the "cat who" series for 50 cents at the hospital once. It did not take me long to put it down in favor of meditating on the patterns in the peeling wall paper and the various and the play of light and shadow between the IV tubes and various other pieces of medical equipment.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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 - Sep 27, 2012 10:55:06 am PDT #19829 of 28344
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.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 11:17:46 am PDT #19830 of 28344
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I read all the then-published Cat Who books while I was recovering from foot surgery back in 2005. They were addictive but oddly depressing. Once I was mobile again, I stopped reading them and gave them all away.
Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2012 11:41:35 am PDT #19831 of 28344
brillig
The first dozen of so Cat Who books were fun because I enjoyed the characters, but there are only so many permutations of Murder in a Small Town you can run through until you run into "The Hero's Best Friend who has supported him through 15 books is now a raging maniac"--which AFAIK hasn't happened in the Cat books, but the premise was starting to creak. Plus I kept thinking "Aren't those cats awfully old now?"
Calli - Sep 27, 2012 11:57:14 am PDT #19832 of 28344
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Plus I kept thinking "Aren't those cats awfully old now?"
The Cat Who Defied Time
The Cat Who Demanded a Gerontologist
The Cat Whose Unfortunate Renal Problems Uncovered the Unscrupulous Veterinary Assistant
sumi - Sep 27, 2012 12:04:52 pm PDT #19833 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Beatrix Potter's gingerbread recipe. . . it has ale, who knew?
Cass - Sep 27, 2012 12:16:03 pm PDT #19834 of 28344
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Kite Runner. If I ever figure out who told me to read that book, I am going to be quite vexed at them. For the longest time it stayed on my shelves too because I refused to donate it and inflict that pain on others and throwing a book away felt like heresy. I totally threw it away though. It was the lessor of sins.
juliana - Sep 27, 2012 12:29:50 pm PDT #19835 of 28344
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
The Book of Ruth. Hello, bleakness, how are you?
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2012 12:52:37 pm PDT #19836 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh! Someone sent me La Perdida, which I hated. But she was getting rid of it, so...there must have been a reason. There are several books that were recommended in general that I didn't like, but I guess there aren't many books that people have specifically, personally recommended to me that have been disasters. I didn't really like Tales of the Lost Formicans, so that might count.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 1:30:30 pm PDT #19837 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
I saw the Kite Runner movie...it was okay. But I can imagine the screenwriter cut out a lot of misery, Cass.
meara - Sep 27, 2012 2:12:52 pm PDT #19838 of 28344
Twilight.
Back in the day a coworker was all "ooh, I just read this awesome book and I know you're a big reader and enjoy vampires and stuff..."