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.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
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.
![[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.
sj - Oct 24, 2012 8:44:06 am PDT #19994 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Are you not supposed to sell those?
No, you're not. You can give them away, but you can't sell them. Borders used to give away Advanced Readers to employees.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 8:45:49 am PDT #19995 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh! I've only ever gotten them second-hand, myself. (From friends in publishing, etc.)