I don't like vampires. I'm gonna take a stand and say they're not good.

Xander ,'Beneath You'


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."


Typo Boy - Apr 16, 2009 1:20:58 pm PDT #8861 of 28414
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Wrinkle in Time was wunderbar, but I seem to remember it as really really scary. One of the few books that ever terrified me. Beautiful, Beautiful writing though. Marvelous characters. May be Definitely a favorite.


Dana - Apr 16, 2009 1:21:31 pm PDT #8862 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Wrinkle in Time scared the crap out of me too.


meara - Apr 16, 2009 1:40:24 pm PDT #8863 of 28414

Mercedes Lackey! Anne McCaffrey! C'mon, all those fantasy ones that you loooooooved at that age?

Or, Tamora Pierce (definitely not very scary)


Barb - Apr 16, 2009 2:00:03 pm PDT #8864 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”

Yeah, Wrinkle is scary, although Abby just finished reading it and loved it. Swiftly Tilting Planet is my favorite of the original trilogy.


Dana - Apr 16, 2009 2:01:44 pm PDT #8865 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, did someone mention Robin McKinley? Beauty, Blue Sword, Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End -- almost all her stuff should be suitable for that age.


le nubian - Apr 16, 2009 2:24:42 pm PDT #8866 of 28414
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

What about Wrinkle in Time scared you all? I don't remember being scared through it.

But...I was reading mysteries and the like from a young age.


Dana - Apr 16, 2009 2:47:54 pm PDT #8867 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

For me, it was the inhuman villains. All those children, bouncing balls at the same time, skipping rope to the same rhythm. It creeped me out very effectively.


Strega - Apr 16, 2009 2:56:51 pm PDT #8868 of 28414

Yeah, I don't remember the L'Engle books being scary either. Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I was always bothered more by suspenseful scenes than by bad stuff actually happening. So, like, a character lost in a creepy swamp and hearing weird noises for a chapter was terrifying. A character actually being eaten by wolves? Not a problem.


Laga - Apr 16, 2009 3:29:04 pm PDT #8869 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I read all the Black Stallion books around that age.


Fay - Apr 16, 2009 6:03:43 pm PDT #8870 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I'm going to say Diana Wynne Jones again. And maybe Joan Aiken.