Buffistas.org
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?

'Heart Of Gold'

Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Closed Threads

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

First Previous Next Last Recent
Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 6:22:37 pm PDT #29085 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Has anyone here read The Forest of Hands and Teeth?

I really liked it. She managed to keep a good horror movie pace of danger without anyone doing anything notably stupid and had some interesting psychological insights into a society built on an ever-present threat.

Steph L. - Sep 28, 2011 6:25:40 pm PDT #29086 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Too lazy to look in literary: Has anyone here read The Forest of Hands and Teeth? I wanna know the skinny on it.

I did -- I really liked it, although I felt like there was a direction the author should have gone, but she didn't. I can't really call that a problem with the story, though; it was more that I was really curious about one detail but the story didn't really support an elaboration.

Not an extremely *happy* book, though.

Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:28:01 pm PDT #29087 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

More or less depressing than The Road?

Cause this spring I read both The Road and Winter's Bone which I thought were amazing books but, whoa, depressing. I'm already gun-in-mouth so maybe I shouldn't push my luck? I read Left Neglected yesterday and that, while somewhat depressing, is also not so much.

Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:29:09 pm PDT #29088 of 30001
Because books.

Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?

Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 6:32:25 pm PDT #29089 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Are there books more depressing than The Road ?

Ethan Frome

The Forest of Hands and Teeth doesn't have a fundamentally bleak view of human nature.

Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:34:46 pm PDT #29090 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?

Oh god yes! Those aspirational books where the heroine has a lovely house in the Back Bay and a cabin in Stowe, with her lovely children on their way to Phillips Exeter or Andover and their big trust funds? Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.

Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:35:53 pm PDT #29091 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?

Or you know, EVERY Martha Stewart book ever published which inevitably remind me why I can't have nice things.

Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:09 pm PDT #29092 of 30001
Because books.

Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.

Oh god, I feel the same way. And it kills me inside.

I always think we could move to ... South Dakota? Maybe we could afford a house there? And then I cry.

Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:15 pm PDT #29093 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

going for a threepeat of random....

has anyone watched The Pioneer Woman tv show yet?

Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:19 pm PDT #29094 of 30001
brillig

I'm with Kat.

First Previous Next Last Recent