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.
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2006 10:10:16 am PDT #847 of 28067
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Atropa - Jun 28, 2006 10:11:08 am PDT #848 of 28067
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Kathy A - Jun 28, 2006 10:13:12 am PDT #849 of 28067
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Kathy A - Jun 28, 2006 10:16:11 am PDT #850 of 28067
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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).
brenda m - Jun 28, 2006 10:22:01 am PDT #851 of 28067
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
Kathy A - Jun 28, 2006 10:26:46 am PDT #852 of 28067
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2006 10:27:59 am PDT #853 of 28067
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I read The Stand in India. It took me nearly the entire trip, plane rides and all.
Kathy A - Jun 28, 2006 10:30:15 am PDT #854 of 28067
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Was that the original version, or the rerelease, now with 500 more pages!
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2006 10:30:43 am PDT #855 of 28067
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The rerelease! Extra long!
Volans - Jun 28, 2006 10:46:59 am PDT #856 of 28067
move out and draw fire
The reading in the dark thing I kind of get (and nag my husband about now), but my mom used to chide me for reading upside down, saying THAT would ruin my eyes (I'd lay on my back on the floor and put the book over my head resting on the floor). Given that everybody in my family back as far as I know had glasses, I'm going to doubt that that killed the eyes.
I used to drive my parents buggy by reading good parts of books to them. Context-free, of course.