Willow ,'Empty Places'
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."
It's definitely worth reading, despite the let down, Amy.
The Passage was an interesting experiment on use of the Kindle. A friend recommended it without telling me a single thing about it. I downloaded it without reading anything about it, and obviously I didn't have the book jacket for hints or clues. So it was so much fun being completely surprised by the plot and themes. It would have been a totally different experience had someone handed me the paperback.
Agree with everything above about The Passage, especially the editing. That book so did not need to be that long. I read it without knowing it was a trilogy and was very sad when I realized after over 700 pages that it was not going to be resolved.
I found the second volume hard to get into because I had forgotten so many details of the first one. So, when I saw the hardcover of #1 at Goodwill, I bought it so I could re-read at my leisure before the third installment (which I am looking forward to despite disappointment by #2).
As soon as I read Gone Girl, I read her first two books. Very dark and gruesome, and I loved them.
Oh yeah, I was wondering about her others. Good one!
As soon as I read Gone Girl, I read her first two books. Very dark and gruesome, and I loved them.
Me too. She needs to write more books soon, or I need to find another writer whose works are that dark.
SJ, right??!
I got Dark Places and I had trouble getting into it -- the protagonist was unlikeable in a way Nick wasn't, for me. I'll pick it up again later, though.
Truly, I went into a little bit of book withdrawal after I was done with all of them.
I found the protoganist in Dark Places to, in the end, be the most likable protagonist out of Flynn's 3 books (she's the only one who's on a path to getting somewhere in life IMO), that said I wouldn't want to have a cup of coffee with anyone in any of her books! Yikes.
Amy, I actually loved the protagonist in Dark Places the best. I loved how completely and unapologetically fucked up she was.
It's the start of a semester, and I have to read a book for class. Anyone have suggestions for good books that deal with "health and aging"? Can be fiction or non-fiction, but I'm not sure how far we can get into supernatural metaphor before I lose my instructor.