How did Cujo actually end?
Signed, "Flinched Her Way Through the Movie, Because Rabid Dogs Are Scary"
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Dana - Mar 16, 2004 9:40:52 am PST #1381 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2004 9:49:48 am PST #1382 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Dana, in the book, the boy dies.
Count Buttinski - Mar 16, 2004 10:22:37 am PST #1383 of 10002
Now I have to start over. Hecate hates that!
Heh. I loved to read King when I was 10, 11, 12 years old. Whenever I try to go back and re-read Pet Sematary and that stuff, I can't do it. Reminds me too much of home.
Count Buttinski - Mar 16, 2004 10:44:32 am PST #1384 of 10002
Now I have to start over. Hecate hates that!
A couple of months ago I stumbled across Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" books. (ouch! such a klutz) Scanning the Net for more background on some of the obscure characters in those books, I fell into the territory of serious Wold Newton fandom. Now I seem to spend most of my work day looking at hypothetical timelines linking every fictional character under the sun ... BTW, did you know Buffy's dad, Hank Summers, is the biological brother of Jaime Summers, the Bionic Woman? No, really ... it says so right there in the "Crossover Chronology"...
Dana - Mar 16, 2004 12:20:01 pm PST #1385 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thanks, Fred.
Also, bummer.
erikaj - Mar 16, 2004 12:39:32 pm PST #1386 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought Jaime was a "Sommers", CB.
Java cat - Mar 16, 2004 1:15:59 pm PST #1387 of 10002
Not javachik
I finished The #1 Ladies Detective Agency on books on tape and it was a wonderful marriage of book to actor/reader. The reader spoke in what I assume is a Satswani (it sounded like she said Satswani, but it could be Botswani? [this is the downside of not have words on paper in front of you]) accent, which helped anchor the book in place, the place being Botswana. The sense of place is the best thing about the book. Mma Ramotswe loves Botswana, and her descriptions of her family history, and the look, feel, taste, customs, sounds of Botswana, and sometimes other countries, are lovely. The mysteries she solves are in alternating chapters to, um, mediations about Botswana or the Botswani, and were only interesting to me (the mystery lover) in the way they reveal another aspect of life there. Recommended, especially for the sense of place in a foreign land. I've just started the second book Tears of the Giraffe, read by the same actress.
Vortex - Mar 16, 2004 6:12:13 pm PST #1388 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Java, I just bought No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, I'm looking forward to it.
Pix - Mar 16, 2004 6:43:54 pm PST #1389 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
If it's already been recommended, I apologize - but along that vein, I LOVE Laurie King's historical mystery series -- starts with The Beekeeper's Apprentice
It supposes that Sherlock Holmes as an older, semi-retired detective meets a young, brilliant woman who becomes his partner in crime, as it were. FanTAStic.
Consuela - Mar 16, 2004 6:49:19 pm PST #1390 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
KristinT, beware of MaryMarySue Russell. I had to stop reading them, although I liked the first three a great deal. By the time I got to Jerusalem, where Russell learned Arabic in three weeks, enchanted diplomats with her wit and beauty, and convinced her Muslim guides that Educated Western Women could kick their asses, I'd pretty much had it.
That said, I rather liked her XF-ish cult novel, and her San Francisco-based mysteries.