Harmony ,'First Date'
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."
Essential X-Men #3 - the reboot with Dave Cockrum's art. This was when the series put forth the characters that would become the most popular comic of its era.
Essential X-Men #4 - deeper into that run, but many classic storylines here.
These are the paperback editions though. The big fat ones.
So for hardback, I guess you want the Marvel Mastwerwork series, like Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men #5
Earliest Spider-Man in hardback
Here's the Cockrum/Wein X-men reboot in hardback.
Wow, thanks Hec! Those Masterwork series look tremendous. So you'd suggest going with #5 in the X-Men Masterwork series as opposed to starting with #1? She is familiar with the X-Men characters and does love them, so I don't think it would be a case of dropping her in blind.
Barb, their numbering is a little screwy and you want to be careful to get the Uncanny X-Men instead of the sixties X-men.
If you wanted to start at the reboot (back in 1975) start with this one.
Uncanny X-Men #2 is the Phoenix Saga. Those two would be great to start with if she likes the X-Men.
Also? Anyone ever read Martin Millar? I got Lonely Wereolf Girl out of the library on a whim the other day, ignored it, cause it didn't seem all that interesting, and then picked it up and read it last night. I QUITE liked it.
I love Millar - my long-time favourites are Lux the Poet and Milk, Sulphates and Alby Starvation. How can you not love a book where the main character is targeted for assassination by the Milk Marketing Board? I'll have to hunt up Lonely Werewolf Girl.
Also? Anyone ever read Martin Millar? I got Lonely Wereolf Girl out of the library on a whim the other day, ignored it, cause it didn't seem all that interesting, and then picked it up and read it last night. I QUITE liked it.
I recently read The Good Fairies of New York and absolutely loved it.
The sex is not always good: [link]
I often think, explicit sex is great if it fits into the story, but sometimes less explicit is sexier. Think of some of the lines of Sappho remembering how a lover was "folded in my arms" and the "familiar heat". Some of the most erotic lines in English language. and Sappho was perfectly willing to get very explicit indeed - she just knew when less was more.
Too much explicit sex turns into written choreography--it's always more fun to watch the dance.
I recently read The Good Fairies of New York and absolutely loved it.
I didn't love it as much as I expected to, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I mean, I did like it, but everything felt a little distant. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, or something.
standing next to fay. Liked it, just didn't love it.