The Yellow Wallpaper gave me nightmares.
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'Sleeper'
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."
Typo Boy - Jan 16, 2014 6:47:04 pm PST #21978 of 28359
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Amy - Jan 16, 2014 7:07:48 pm PST #21979 of 28359
Because books.
Don't want to taint something I have fond memories of.
Right? I'm not sure I'm ready for how grim Danny might be now, either.
WindSparrow - Jan 16, 2014 7:38:14 pm PST #21980 of 28359
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
That definitely made an impression, which I followed up by reading a lot more Poe. Nothing quite matches the first time I read The Black Cat. That one disturbed the hell out of me - even more than Tell-Tale or The Cask...
Ever been to the Edgar Allen Poe house in Philadelphia? When I was there some twenty-some-odd years ago, the tour guide talked about how Poe found inspiration all around him. Then took us into the basement and showed us a niche of some kind in the wall that could easily be bricked up...
DavidS - Jan 16, 2014 8:15:26 pm PST #21981 of 28359
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Frank, I've got some of Basil Rathbone's horror recordings if you want to revisit your past.
erikaj - Jan 17, 2014 6:22:53 am PST #21982 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!
Are there two, cause I thought Baltimore had the Poe House? Leading to the Wire moment of cornerboys being asked where the Poe house is and saying "Man, look around!"
WindSparrow - Jan 17, 2014 7:48:35 am PST #21983 of 28359
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I can't speak definitively about Baltimore's Poe house, but I think there is more than one and I do know that Poe did live in Baltimore. I think Philadelphia was earlier in his career.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 17, 2014 7:50:26 am PST #21984 of 28359
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hec, that would be awesome, but I'm not very adept (as in not at all) with downloading. Guess I could give it a shot though.
You don't have any of Vincent Price's by chance? I used to borrower those from the library as well.
DavidS - Jan 17, 2014 2:27:23 pm PST #21985 of 28359
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, that would be awesome
Three sent to your profile addy. You just click on the attachments and save them and they'll play on anything that runs an MP3.
I sent:
The Raven - Basil Rathbone
The Hand of Fate - Boris Karloff
Baba Yaga - Vincent Price
le nubian - Jan 20, 2014 9:24:17 am PST #21986 of 28359
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Y'all I have not caught up in here since the end of last semester. Two things to contribute:
1) flea, I suspect Casper wants to read Divergent because the movie is coming out very soon. I agree with what others have said about how to handle it. I also agree with Tep that the 3rd book is a hot mess. I actually wish I hadn't read it. Wherever I thought the story was going to go after the 2nd book would have been 1000% better than where the author took the story.
2) Has anyone here read THE SILENT WIFE? I just finished that book and I'd like to discuss it.
Polgara - Jan 20, 2014 10:25:55 am PST #21987 of 28359
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
I've had Allegiant sitting on my Kindle since it came out, but I'm afraid to read it based on everything I've heard. I'm hoping with some distance, I'll forget how awesome the first two were, and won't make unfavorable comparisons. So, maybe sometime in 2015...