'Safe'
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."
(This is the same sort of thing that drove me insane with Time Traveler's Wife-- that and the horrible authorial intrusion.)
Barb, can you explain this wrt Time Traveler's Wife ? I know you didn't like it the way I did, but I'm not sure what you mean here.
Same here. I loved that book to pieces, and part of the reason was because Niffenegger was so internally consistent.
Is there any downside to being a vampire in this verse?
Well, he still can't go out in daylight because he's just too pretty or something.
Getting vamped makes you more of a Mary Sue than you already were.
Well, he still can't go out in daylight because he's just too pretty or something.
Oh my! I bet I would have LOVED this is 14, though
Oh my! I bet I would have LOVED this is 14, though
That's why I am reading the first one. Because it makes me giggle endlessly and I can see that my junior high self would have thought it was the best thing ever.
I'm trying to remember what I was reading at 14. That would have been eighth or ninth grade? I read The Mists of Avalon the summer before eighth grade, and then spent the next few years reading anything Arthurian I could get my hands on. Plus Jude Devereaux, Quantum Leap novels, Mary Higgins Clark, and Stephen King. So yeah, I probably would have loved the sparkly vampires.
At 14, I was reading a lot of Harlequin romances, checking out various nonfiction from the library (mostly history), and Stephen King. A year later is when I got into SF/fantasy (Tolkien, Heinlein, Clarke, etc.).
Skulduggery Pleasant, on the other hand, is delightful. I am loving 12-year-old Stephanie, with her guts and joie de vivre (...which I can't spell). And Skulduggery himself is cracking. So far Tanith has had only one chapter, but I was entirely enamoured of her. I do hope that she isn't evil/doesn't get killed off in an untimely fashion.
Oh my god, I *love* Tanith! "Come and have a go....if you think you're hard enough." Eeeeeeee!!!!
And Skulduggery himself cracks my shit up. He's totally Remington Steele. If, you know, Remington Steele was a skeleton. And of course I love Stephanie -- how could I *not* love a character who's THAT kickass AND shares my name?
Fay, you know there's a second one, right?
I do feel a sort of car crash curiosity. Much like with LK Hamilton, actually.
The newest Anita Blake caught my eye the other day, and I just had to read the book flap -- it's something about Anita having to go home with Jason (to his parents' home, or some other extended-family thing). Of course his family doesn't know he's a were-whatever, and so Anita is his beard.
(Although how can she be his beard if she's actually fucking him?)
(I guess she's his Beard of Normality?)
Anyway, I rolled my eyes forever and then put the book back on the shelf.
At 14, I was finally coming out of my Piers Anthony & Anne MacCaffrey phase, majorly into Stephen King, reading The Autobiography of Malcom X and various other bios/autobios of civil rights leaders. Also, a lot of MAD Magazine.
14? Let's see. I think that was around the time I discovered Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses. And then when The Mammoth Hunters came out, I totally preferred Ranec to Jondalar. If I'd been online then, I bet it would've been my first shipper war. Those books were great for adolescent me because they were full of sex but flew under my mom's radar because of the lack of bodice ripper covers.
Hm, what else? I gobbled up Sunfire YA historical romances, and also my hometown library's huge collection of Georgette Heyer. And Regency romances in general, because they were the adult romances I could bring home from the library or bookstore without my mom pitching a fit. Kinda funny that that time period is now my era, given what first sparked my interest!