The movie version (the original one) is really creepy too.
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
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."
askye - Oct 23, 2012 8:39:53 am PDT #19984 of 28344
Thrive to spite them
DavidS - Oct 23, 2012 8:41:34 am PDT #19985 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scrappy - Oct 23, 2012 8:49:58 am PDT #19986 of 28344
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.
![[link]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennington_college_jennings_music_building_20041121.jpg){kind=link}
megan walker - Oct 23, 2012 9:48:44 am PDT #19987 of 28344
"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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
"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 28344
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?
Consuela - Oct 24, 2012 8:19:37 am PDT #19992 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
A British blogger has outed Harriet Klausner for selling review copies of books she gets for free from publishers. Which I guess I should have realized she was doing, given the number of reviews she posts. But she posts 30 reviews per day, on average: she's certainly not actually reading them, and she's making money on the whole thing.
Whether it's illegal is another question, I guess.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 8:42:14 am PDT #19993 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Are you not supposed to sell those? I think the place I sell books explicitly says they do buy advance proofs and etc.
The non-disclosure is another story.