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.
You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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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."
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.
Strega - Apr 16, 2009 7:27:27 pm PDT #8871 of 28414
Laga -- Heh, oddly enough the specific "character lost in a creepy swamp" scenario I was thinking of was in The Black Stallion's Ghost. But of course most of them weren't all spooky like that.
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 9:02:43 pm PDT #8872 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
man, Google is giving me no love. I thought the next Rothfuss book was due this month but I find no info on Powell's or Amazon. Does anybody know what's happened?
Polter-Cow - Apr 16, 2009 9:11:54 pm PDT #8873 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 9:14:37 pm PDT #8874 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thanks P-C. I was just coming back to post that.
Fred Pete - Apr 17, 2009 6:00:05 am PDT #8875 of 28414
Ann, that's a ferret.
I first read The Mists of Avalon around that age, or a little older. I loved it then, though I don't really remember how scary it was.
I didn't read it until I was a good bit older (I was in college when it came out). Possibly a bit on the scary side, but not extremely so. Also some semi-explicit sex scenes that aren't appropriate for some 11YOs.
It's also a very long book -- 800 or 900 pages. So not for the short attention spanned.