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.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Strega - Apr 16, 2009 2:56:51 pm PDT #8868 of 28414
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.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2009 6:19:20 am PDT #8876 of 28414
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also some semi-explicit sex scenes that aren't appropriate for some 11YOs.
Maybe not, but I read 'em anyway.
Barb - Apr 17, 2009 6:33:52 am PDT #8877 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
I read WIFEY when I was twelve.
Got suspended for it, too.