I've mentioned that The Night Flyer was the first story in a book I bought from an airport newsstand before discovering that I'd be flying a 12-seater into Peoria through what turned out to be a tornado cell, right? Who cares about vampires, it has a small plane crashing during a storm!
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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."
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 08, 2013 11:55:45 am PDT #20612 of 28368
"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
sj - Apr 08, 2013 12:20:25 pm PDT #20613 of 28368
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Scary books like Silence of the Lambs tend to freak me out more than scary books with a supernatural element.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 1:26:34 pm PDT #20614 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.
You know, I would say that someone should make this move, exactly as described, in order to really fuck with reality, but I don't know that anyone would trust the creeptasticness of books falling off a shelf.
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2013 1:34:22 pm PDT #20615 of 28368
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What do you mean someone? The Navidson Record is available on Netflix. It was on Instant for a while, but they took it down last month.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 1:39:04 pm PDT #20616 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.
With a blurb on the cover from Morgenstern, right?
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2013 1:42:48 pm PDT #20617 of 28368
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That was the original cover; I prefer the Criterion Collection cover.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2013 2:14:38 pm PDT #20618 of 28368
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was scrolling to the message box in order to relate Talisman freaking me out about seagulls, but that's reasonably easy to avoid. The TV movie of Langoliers has made fog convince me that the rest of the world has disappeared, and that seems to be retroactive to the book. However, The Mist plays into that too.
I guess I'm a child of Stephen King, because it was most often him freaking me out, and I stopped reading him more than ten years ago.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 2:38:44 pm PDT #20619 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Every time it's really foggy and I'm driving, I half expect to see a giant foot appear and smash things.
Kat - Apr 08, 2013 2:46:24 pm PDT #20620 of 28368
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sj brought up Silence of the Lambs before I could. I'm not a horror reader so those aren't my scary. But Silence of the Lambs freaked me out. As did the memoir Wasted by Mayra Hornbacher.
Amy - Apr 08, 2013 2:49:31 pm PDT #20621 of 28368
Because books.
A friend and I read a book about Ted Bundy while I was living in Florida, and we were both completely freaked out. I think it was The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. Well, I know it was by Ann Rule, even if I got the title wrong.