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You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.

River ,'Objects In Space'

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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."

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DavidS - Oct 23, 2012 7:03:26 am PDT #19982 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It has one of the best first paragraphs ever:

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Strix - Oct 23, 2012 8:32:47 am PDT #19983 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

YES YES YES. It is perfect, and I love that opening para.

LOVE.

(I'd love to do a Halloween week read-along of it; wish peeps lived closer...Skype and cocktails, mebbe?)

askye - Oct 23, 2012 8:39:53 am PDT #19984 of 28370
Thrive to spite them

The movie version (the original one) is really creepy too.

DavidS - Oct 23, 2012 8:41:34 am PDT #19985 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The movie version (the original one) is really creepy too.

Indeed.

Scrappy - Oct 23, 2012 8:49:58 am PDT #19986 of 28370
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The story is that Jackson based Hill House on the mansion whose grounds became Bennington College. It became the music building [link] . It stands on the the top of a huge hill, with woods behind it and could be kinda creepy. Her husband was a professor at Bennington.

megan walker - Oct 23, 2012 9:48:44 am PDT #19987 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Hah! That's where I read her. I hated walking by that building, especially since it was so out of the way.

askye - Oct 23, 2012 12:13:14 pm PDT #19988 of 28370
Thrive to spite them

I saw it on TCM a few years ago. When the walls started to bow in that was just creepy.

Strix - Oct 23, 2012 4:22:16 pm PDT #19989 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

But even Lili Taylor and Liam Neeson couldn't save the remake.

No matter how many times I read the scene with the girls in the room with the thumping in the corridor, it FREAKS MY SHIT.

Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2012 3:53:03 am PDT #19990 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

But even Lili Taylor and Liam Neeson couldn't save the remake.

Which is a damn shame, because they would have been perfect for a real version of the book. Actually, I thought the whole movie was cast great, but OMG what an awful revision of a great story.

Strix - Oct 24, 2012 4:06:57 am PDT #19991 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

ITA, Frank. I was excited by it when I saw the casting, but it was a hot mess. WHY did they feel it needed to go in the direction it did? WTF?

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