Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
after giving us the lecture about ruining our eyes due to the light level.
When I was a kid I thought this was one of those parent lies, but considering I'm the only person in my family who's short-sighted, I probably should have listened. Meh, I REGRET NOTHING!
Ooh, here's a good one: reading "Brian and the Aliens," by Will Shetterly, aloud to my little brother, complete with voices.
This was probably late at night in bed, which is why I was reminded.
I used to read Interview with the Vampire sitting upside-down in a papisan chair (under my loft bed, behind a curtain), while blasting Phantom of the Opera on the stereo. At least I was a dedicated teen cliché.
I love you.
My eyes were shot from birth on (didn't get glasses until right before kindergarten, since babies/toddlers didn't go to the eye doctor unless they were blind back in the late '60s), so the light probably didn't effect me either way. My sister had to get glasses in 7th grade, for school and later for night driving, but my brother and two of his kids did too, so I'm guessing bad eyesight is genetic in our family.
My favorite reading aloud to others experience was always my babysitting gigs. The Slucki girls across the street loved me because I was the only sitter who had them get ready for bed an hour earlier than their parents said just so we could read together (they even asked why I wasn't around when I had to take a break from sitting jobs while I was in a play).
I used to read Interview with the Vampire sitting upside-down in a papisan chair (under my loft bed, behind a curtain), while blasting Phantom of the Opera on the stereo. At least I was a dedicated teen cliché.
Hee. I inhaled The Stand over a long weekend when I was about 15, while obsessively listening to a new Howard Jones album. To this day I can't hear anything off that album without getting a little creeped out.
As bad as some versions of King's work can be, I do love the miniseries of "The Stand," especially the opening credits of the first ep with the song "Don't Fear the Reaper" playing over images of the death inside the compound where Captain Trips started.
I read The Stand in India. It took me nearly the entire trip, plane rides and all.
Was that the original version, or the rerelease, now with 500 more pages!
The rerelease! Extra long!