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Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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."
hippocampus - Apr 04, 2013 9:59:50 am PDT #20590 of 28367
not your mom's socks.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 6:51:25 am PDT #20591 of 28367
Woe to the fucking wicked.
So, I've started House of Leaves. I'm only a couple chapters in, but I get the feeling that this might not be good bedtime reading because of the creepy. At the same time, I don't want to not read it because it's really good and hits a number of my favorite things in stories (unreliable narrator! Layers of meta-story! Living with ambiguity! Fake reality!)
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2013 7:50:47 am PDT #20592 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You should definitely read it at night alone, maybe with your closet door just slightly ajar.
Definitely.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 7:57:07 am PDT #20593 of 28367
Woe to the fucking wicked.
P-C, I mean this in the most loving way possible, but fuck right off. I'm in an old, creaky building, and the bottom half of my bed goes halfway across my closet doors. Last night, I was lying in bed, thinking, "Stupid Sunday night with no traffic. Why can't there be traffic?"
What's weird is that I've read all but the last book of ASoIaF, which gets pretty graphically gruesome, and it didn't particularly bother me. I'm not a fan of gore, but I don't find it disquieting in the same way as a cold, physically impossible hallway . My psyche, she is strange.
Strix - Apr 08, 2013 8:11:03 am PDT #20594 of 28367
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
What's everyone's "worst(best?) book to read alone in the house late at night?"
I have read "The Haunting of Hill House" a zillion times and I STILL get the cold creepies when I read it.
Sue - Apr 08, 2013 8:20:16 am PDT #20595 of 28367
hip deep in pie
Debet, there are parts that of HoL I found super creepy. In a 'put it in the freezer' kind of way. Def. not late night reading.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 08, 2013 8:22:03 am PDT #20596 of 28367
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't read books that make me feel like that. Possibly the last time I did, I was in college reading Stephan King short stories.
I am more of a Joey-- I would put Little Women in the freezer because it is sad when Beth dies!
Steph L. - Apr 08, 2013 8:23:28 am PDT #20597 of 28367
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What's everyone's "worst(best?) book to read alone in the house late at night?"
Pet Semetary freaked my shit out hard.
Sue - Apr 08, 2013 8:28:09 am PDT #20598 of 28367
hip deep in pie
In Life of Pi the discovery that the Island was a carnivorous being gave me such the wiggins that I didn't sleep all night.
Strix - Apr 08, 2013 8:29:06 am PDT #20599 of 28367
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ooh, good one! Anyone ever read "The Witches of Worm" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder? Because I looked askance at my cats for a WHILE reading that as a kid, and upon re-reading as an adult.
Sophia, I've put (a very few) books cover down or in the car because I felt like evil radiated off them. Totally irrational, but...