If you liked NOS4A2, try Heart-Shaped Box, his first. It was fantastic.
I have it on my kindle, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
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."
sj - Sep 02, 2013 5:46:53 pm PDT #21316 of 28377
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Atropa - Sep 02, 2013 5:57:39 pm PDT #21317 of 28377
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I highly rec "Waking the Moon" by Elizabeth Hand.
I love that book. So much.
because I love a good academically oriented paranormal.
Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova?
Steph L. - Sep 02, 2013 5:58:49 pm PDT #21318 of 28377
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm just waiting for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book (Last Stand of Dead Men) to show up on my doorstep. I should have it Wednesday.
meara - Sep 02, 2013 6:00:19 pm PDT #21319 of 28377
I read Yohnalossee Riding School for Girls (or whatever it's called) and totally did not understand why it was getting such rave reviews. It didn't seem all that great to me. Has anyone else read it?
Strix - Sep 02, 2013 6:04:13 pm PDT #21320 of 28377
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova?
Yes, and I liked it, although I feel she petered out on the ending. But the rest of it was loads of fun!
Beverly - Sep 02, 2013 11:31:23 pm PDT #21321 of 28377
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yohnalossee Riding School for Girls
I haven't read the book, but I know exactly where Yonahlassee is. We used to drive past it all the time on our backcountry trips. Their horses are very friendly. They will nibble on your car.
um, sorry, not book-related. Nothing to see here, move along.
sumi - Sep 03, 2013 5:05:27 am PDT #21322 of 28377
Art Crawl!!!
But very cool. I have the book and I started it - but then I got distracted . . .possibly because I have the book in book form rather than on my kindle.
lisah - Sep 03, 2013 6:12:57 am PDT #21323 of 28377
Punishingly Intricate
Wolf Hall!!!
Gris - Sep 03, 2013 7:01:33 am PDT #21324 of 28377
Hey. New board.
I am reading Infinite Jest. 4% in (which is a good solid novella worth of words) I feel like I am reading something written by somebody with much more literary intelligence than me, but not in the smug and infuriating way that made me stop reading at least one Zadie Smith and one Jonathan Franzen book. I feel like I will (slowly) finish this one. Score one for modern literature!
It is very confusing in some ways, and jumps around in space and time a good bit, but with just enough hints that I don't feel exactly lost. There are a lot of descriptions of drugs. And the words are just very pretty.
le nubian - Sep 03, 2013 7:50:27 am PDT #21325 of 28377
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am reading Indexing still and while I like it, i am not sure what to think of Amazon's serial format. This is the 2nd book I have read this way and I am "eh" on it as structure.
The stories are pretty interesting to me though. I am in Episode 4.