Zoe ,'Serenity'
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."
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.
I feel like there are several that I just can't quite remember. This is going to drive me nuts.
Yeah, I just remembered the Mister Pip one seeing it in my notes and I remember loving the idea when I heard about it. I'm sure there are probably a bunch.