Willow ,'First Date'
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."
Lev Gross was attempting to provide an adult version of Harry Potter and Narnia. His writing is decent, but his plotting needs work. At least in the first book.
The second book caused a lot of outcry regarding rape/sexual assault. I decided not to read the second book when I read some of the complaints.
Pratchett's Dodger, in which Dickens is a character. I liked it quite a bit, anyway.
I feel like there are several that I just can't quite remember. This is going to drive me nuts.
Eta: as I recall, Daughter of Time only mentions the play to complain that people know it better than history.
The second book caused a lot of outcry regarding rape/sexual assault. I decided not to read the second book when I read some of the complaints.
I'm glad I read it; I like the book as a whole quite a bit. But I sure didn't see the assault-y part coming. At all. Kind of shook me up.
I feel like there are several that I just can't quite remember. This is going to drive me nuts.
This is exactly how I feel.
But I sure didn't see the assault-y part coming. At all. Kind of shook me up.
This is also exactly how I feel.
There's Drood by Dan Simmons. Maybe something like Reading Lolita in Tehran?
Tep, I'm still leery. I was a bit put off by the gender relationships in the first book, so I think I'm going to keep away from the 2nd.
There are the Mary Russell books, which feature a retired Sherlock Holmes.
Now I really want to reread Possession.
I meant in that it uses characters created by someone else.
Ah, gotcha!
I thought Death Comes to Pemberley and The Magicians were not very good. There's Perks of Being a Wallflower, heavily influenced by Catcher, but I think the writing in that is abysmal. I seem to be in the minority for really not getting why it's become such a teen classic. Let me ponder other possibilities...
ETA: I ADORE the Mary Russell books, though the first three were better than any of the rest.
The Jane Austen Book Club. You could probably do a whole salon on works that reference Austen heavily.