I love stories like that. Maybe cause I grew up without neighborhoods...well, not in a free-range house or anything, but you know. Deb, I love Holmes stories, esp. "A Scandal in Bohemia"...Holmes and Irene Adler. Sigh. ION, I loved "King Suckerman"...excellent humor and suspense, both.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Mar 12, 2004 5:20:50 am PST #1312 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Alicia K - Mar 12, 2004 6:23:57 am PST #1313 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Someone mentioned books with bad endings earlier. The first thing that came to mind was Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Loved, loved, loved it ... until the end, and then I was just crushed by the stupidity of the ending.
Or Hannibal by Thomas Harris. I think that's the only book I ever threw across the room at the end.
Consuela - Mar 12, 2004 7:03:38 am PST #1314 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
until the end, and then I was just crushed by the stupidity of the ending.
Word, Alicia. So. Incredibly. Stupid. When K gave it to me (back when I first met her, fall of 1999, pre-YV!), she said, "some people have issues with the ending."
And I so did. Argh.
Vortex - Mar 12, 2004 7:06:10 am PST #1315 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Or Hannibal by Thomas Harris. I think that's the only book I ever threw across the room at the end.
me too. Along with screaming "The FUCK????" The movie wasn't _much_ better, but at least I wasn't angry at the end.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2004 7:08:30 am PST #1316 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I remember really liking The Horse Whisperer, thinking how original and interesting it was -- until the ending. Which was a sad pathetic cop-out cliched ending.
Same with Bee Season, which is still worth reading -- REALLY -- despite the ending that left me asking "Buh?"
erikaj - Mar 12, 2004 7:27:03 am PST #1317 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
You are so right, Tep. The ending of THW totally wrecked that book.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2004 8:20:40 am PST #1318 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Loved, loved, loved it ... until the end, and then I was just crushed by the stupidity of the ending.
Passage. I spent the last 100 pages intrigued because I thought she was going to pull out something brilliant at the last minute, but nope. It just. keeps. going.
flea - Mar 12, 2004 8:38:26 am PST #1319 of 10002
information libertarian
I think Passage was a hard book to end - the actual end was okay, but the getting there was, as you say, tiring. I think the book needed a lot of editing that it didn't get. It could easily have been 2/3 as long, and better for it.
Consuela - Mar 12, 2004 8:41:13 am PST #1320 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
In Passage, I kept getting hung up on the timing. Because the one character is experiencing something that happened very fast, and the other characters were living through weeks or months, and yet the chapters were intertwined, and it confused me terribly.
I can't say that Passage wasn't ambitious, but I don't think it really worked all that well.
Java cat - Mar 12, 2004 1:53:01 pm PST #1321 of 10002
Not javachik
Was it in Natter that someone suggested numbering the conversations? Passage = #28
eta: Though I hasten to add, I agree.