Love Roddy Doyle.
Me too! I must've read Paddy Clark, ha ha ha a hundred times when I was a teenager. I havent looked at it in years though. Maybe it's time to root it out again now I've made it through my backlog of books.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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."
Jars - Jun 07, 2006 12:52:10 pm PDT #611 of 28095
JZ - Jun 07, 2006 12:55:19 pm PDT #612 of 28095
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
P-C, could it be Portrait of Jennie?
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:02:27 pm PDT #613 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
YES THAT IS TOTALLY WHAT IT IS OMG.
And I knew the main character's name started with an E: Eben!
meara - Jun 07, 2006 1:04:42 pm PDT #614 of 28095
AmyLiz, Sharon Shinn has written science fiction (very romancey ones, at that) and YA books...but the YA books aren't NOT SF, they're just shelved under YA.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:08:44 pm PDT #615 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm impressed that you got it, JZ, considering I got so much of the basic plot wrong.
JZ - Jun 07, 2006 1:23:07 pm PDT #616 of 28095
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Well "Guy falls in love with a woman in a painting" is plenty enough to narrow it down. Plus, the film version was just on TMC a few weeks ago (well worth checking out, BTW), so my hazy memories of gobbling the print version down as an 8th grade bibliomaniac had been very recently refreshed.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:35:18 pm PDT #617 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well "Guy falls in love with a woman in a painting" is plenty enough to narrow it down.
Yeah, but apparently, that's not even how it goes. It's like The Time Traveler's Husband, except it ends with the dude painting the chick. And a tidal wave for some reason.
Anne W. - Jun 07, 2006 1:39:35 pm PDT #618 of 28095
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2006 1:41:02 pm PDT #619 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Didn't James Patterson take a break from thrillers and write a romance?
And John Grisham had that one departure, The Painted House, right?
Kathy A - Jun 07, 2006 2:52:42 pm PDT #620 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.
Are you kidding me?! Why have I never realized that those two E.B. Whites were the same person?