Oh, dear. Painfully true.
Signed,
Just got rid of her David Eddings books
'Trash'
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."
Adolescent Reading Habits
Heh. I particularly like Characters Show Up and Asshole Leper Hero.
Adolescent Reading Habits
Ha! I just sent that to way too many people.
I got it from Katie on LJ.
Asshole Leper Hero
Seriously. And he's writing MORE books in that series.
Does everybody who would want such a thing know about The Haunted Looking Glass? Ghost stories chosen and illustrated by Edward Gorey.
SQUEE! I did not know! Adds to Amazon list!
Mary Sue Gets A Dragon is too accurate to even be humorous. It just is.
I actually avoided everything except Piers Anthony. My mother bought me the Stephen Donaldson books and I could not get through them, same with Dune. I am pretty sure I read Anne McCaffery, but I don't remember them. Of course, I was too busy reading about Jondalar's giant woman-maker, and of course, the Erica Jong. My mom recently confessed that she would have censored the Erica Jong if she had know, but she has just now gotten around to reading them in her retirement, and I am 35.
I don't recall Dragon on a Pedestal being porny. Did I miss something?
Oh my. They are ALL perfect.
[I even love the Dune one in spite of thinking that, actually, the first 4 are all pretty damn good. And honestly, when I was fourteen, I even liked the last two because fourteen year-olds tend not to be too picky about books with that much sex in them. It was only upon rereading them as an adult that I said "Hey wait a minute, this soft-core porn is self indulgent crap!.")
I still have the Eddings Sparhawk books, they do interesting things with religion and politics in those two series. And women get to kick some butt.