'Destiny'
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."
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.
I'm in the process of loading reading material onto my phone (lo, how far we have come...), and I was looking for some recommendations of texts that would be on gutenberg.org.
Ideas?
Captains Courageous, White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Dracula, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Up from Slavery, Sherlock Holmes and, of course, The Education of Henry Adams.