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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."

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megan walker - Aug 18, 2013 2:53:22 pm PDT #21259 of 28406
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

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).

Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:13:12 pm PDT #21260 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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!

sj - Aug 18, 2013 3:44:48 pm PDT #21261 of 28406
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

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.

javachik - Aug 18, 2013 3:46:31 pm PDT #21262 of 28406
Our wings are not tired.

SJ, right??!

Amy - Aug 18, 2013 3:54:19 pm PDT #21263 of 28406
Because books.

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.

sj - Aug 18, 2013 3:57:23 pm PDT #21264 of 28406
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Truly, I went into a little bit of book withdrawal after I was done with all of them.

javachik - Aug 18, 2013 3:58:12 pm PDT #21265 of 28406
Our wings are not tired.

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.

sj - Aug 18, 2013 3:59:23 pm PDT #21266 of 28406
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Amy, I actually loved the protagonist in Dark Places the best. I loved how completely and unapologetically fucked up she was.

DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 4:20:50 am PDT #21267 of 28406
Woe to the fucking wicked.

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.

Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 7:07:25 am PDT #21268 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great Grandmother

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