Beatrix Potter's gingerbread recipe. . . it has ale, who knew?
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
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."
sumi - Sep 27, 2012 12:04:52 pm PDT #19833 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
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..."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 27, 2012 2:18:15 pm PDT #19839 of 28344
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Do recommendations you didn't take count? A friend of mine was big into L. Ron Hubbard in school, and tried to get me to read Battlefield Earth. Pass.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 2:25:07 pm PDT #19840 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I guess, Matt. I think you made the right call. Meara, yeah, that happened to me too. I might have been fine with it if I only read the one, though.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 2:34:40 pm PDT #19841 of 28344
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Cass, I had the same reaction to Kite Runner. It left a sour taste in my brain that will never go away. From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
sj - Sep 27, 2012 2:51:58 pm PDT #19842 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I loved the movie version of The Kite Runner. I never read the book, but I'm all about the misery in books.