I also really liked Tanith Lee's science fiction novel "Don't Bite the Sun" - which is sweet and strange and fun.
And the Flat Earth books, particularly Night's Master are cool in a louche, very sexy magical Arabian Knights kind of way.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
DavidS - Jun 04, 2015 2:36:21 pm PDT #23391 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Jun 04, 2015 2:43:52 pm PDT #23392 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I should read more Tanith Lee. I loved what I have read, although at this point I can't remember the titles. Perhaps I would recognize them if I looked at a list? Perhaps. not sure if descriptions would even help, what I remember is very...abstract.
Strix - Jun 04, 2015 2:50:24 pm PDT #23393 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, no, Tanith Lee! I loved her collection "Tales from The Sisters Grimmmer." It really got me into the idea of revamped fairy tales, which of course Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have some up with some STELLAR anthologies on that theme.
I liked Gone Girl, but I REALLY loved Dark Places. I think Charlize will do a great job, but she's not who I had a visual image for the main character.
sj - Jun 04, 2015 2:52:20 pm PDT #23394 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Strix, I'm curious who you were picturing.
Strix - Jun 04, 2015 3:00:48 pm PDT #23395 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Emily Blunt, for some reason. (I also like that the series' are based in mostly MO; I'm all like, hey, the setting is partly KC! I know that place! Gillian Flynn is from KC, though; she went to Bishop Miege, a very good school, but I think she's a few years younger than I.)
I know ScarJo droppped out of Dark Places, and I think Charlize will do fine, but I would have cast ScarJo in Sharp Objects, personally, before Dark Places.
sj - Jun 04, 2015 3:12:58 pm PDT #23396 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I actually pictured ScarJo the entire time I was reading Dark Places. She seemed more the physical type, and I'm having a hard time picturing Charlize in the role
Strix - Jun 04, 2015 4:17:34 pm PDT #23397 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I didn't know about casting when I read the books, so I was actress-image free. And I'm thinking Emiy Blunt, but I was also thinking a slightly older Ellen Page. She's got the bitter down.
Atropa - Jun 06, 2015 5:26:32 pm PDT #23398 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
While out thrifting today, I found vintage Mary Stewart paperbacks! Nine Coaches Waiting and Touch Not the Cat ! My collection of gothic paperbacks slowly grows ...
Connie Neil - Jun 06, 2015 5:42:59 pm PDT #23399 of 28333
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Oh, I adore Mary Stewart.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 07, 2015 6:40:59 am PDT #23400 of 28333
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I wish my local library had Tanith Lee's Tales from the Flat Earth books. I can check out her vampire stories if I want (the ones I've read didn't impress me), but our librarian seems not to like her fantasy works.