'Heart Of Gold'
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."
I am Pix and t in this. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a favorite. Has anyone read Empire of Sand (Tasha Suri)? Very different book but it pulled me in in much the same way.
I really enjoyed Addie LaRue! And somewhere along the way, my brain decided that it was kind of a genderflipped Highlander and (A) I like it even more now, and (B) mad I didn't think of that.
I am reading Hands of the Emperor and enjoying it but got to a part that I thought was maybe 85% done and looked down and realized I was only 25% through. This is a long book!
I have read Empire of Sand! A while ago so details are fuzzy, but I certainly liked it very much.
Hands of the Emperor is hella long. I would have been more reluctant to start it, probably, if I had realized that before starting, especially if I was carrying around an actual thick paper book, so pretty glad I didn’t check that going in tbh
This is a long book!
It really is, but I admit that I enjoyed it a lot.
I'm trying to read Justine by Lawrence Durrell for book club, but it's a bit too much for me. Very literary and lots of bullshit about the sex lives of incomprehensible women. As if that's the only thing of interest about them. I'm not sure I'm gonna finish this.
Did you watch The Durrells in Corfu? I haven't read any of his work, but I've heard enough that it seems like it would hilarious in the context of the character on the show.
I saw an episode, I think. Those books were written by Lawrence Durrell's brother, who clearly had a sense of humor. I don't think Lawrence did...
Oh, agreed. I discovered Gerald Durrell's books when I was in middle school and they were a huge influence on me. Then in high school I found out that Lawrence Durrell actually *had* published, went looking for The Alexandria Quartet, found Justine and hated it. Never tried it again, never tried the other three.
Larry's just a total tool poseur artiste on the show, which adds up, coming from his younger brother's writing.
In Gerald Durrell's book My Family and Other Animals he describes Larry as "...designed by Providence to go through life like a small blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences."
My 11-year-old self had never heard of "unctuousness," but "curling up cat-like" made enough sense to me to go on with, and I looked up the word later.
I remember reading Gerald Durrell's books back in my teens and laughing over them. I tried reading one of the Alexandria Quartet (my parents had all four) but didn't get it - either I was too young or there really wasn't much of a point to it. I believe his books are still in print.