I've been rereading the Wrinkle in Time books lately, and I'm on the third one now, A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Damn, I forgot how cheesy this one is. Unicorns dancing with the wind? I mean, I'm enjoying it, but there are definitely some cringeworthy moments.
So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.
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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."
Kate P. - May 09, 2004 4:35:06 pm PDT #2777 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Gris - May 09, 2004 7:17:37 pm PDT #2778 of 10002
Hey. New board.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite. Cheesy, yes, but also... I dunno, it had something going for it that I liked. It was a long long time ago.
But then, I actually preferred the somewhat less fantastic Madeliene L'Engle books, like the Austins series (and those were crazy cheesy). And I loved how, eventually, I realized that all of her young adult books, including the Wrinkle in Time series, were all connected somehow, through characters that knew each other and other, similar, connections. But that's about all I remember.
Steph L. - May 10, 2004 4:47:15 am PDT #2779 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And I loved how, eventually, I realized that all of her young adult books, including the Wrinkle in Time series, were all connected somehow, through characters that knew each other and other, similar, connections.
That actually extends to her adult fiction, as well; I mean, the YA characters and the characters in the adult fiction are also entertwined. Some of the characters in her adult fiction were children in the YA books, for instance.
Katerina Bee - May 10, 2004 8:24:41 am PDT #2780 of 10002
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The Stephen King-verse has the interconnected characters appearing briefly in each other's stories thing going, too. I rather like it.
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2004 8:25:44 am PDT #2781 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Stephen King-verse has the interconnected characters appearing briefly in each other's stories thing going, too.
Also, Faulkner, of course.
deborah grabien - May 10, 2004 8:45:15 am PDT #2782 of 10002
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Also, Faulkner, of course.
And one odd, glancing mention in Peter Straub's Floating Dragon, of one of the characters from Ghost Story.
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2004 8:48:07 am PDT #2783 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There's also an amusing bit in Christopher Pike's Remember Me where one of the characters writes a short story that's essentially identical to The Eternal Enemy.
Lilty Cash - May 10, 2004 9:09:44 am PDT #2784 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Can I say that I love how it always comes back to Christopher Pike?
Doesn't another Pike book have a character actually mentioning Fall into Darkness, as well?
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2004 9:21:54 am PDT #2785 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Can I say that I love how it always comes back to Christopher Pike?
Hee hee. Glad to see another Pike fan.
Doesn't another Pike book have a character actually mentioning Fall into Darkness, as well?
Hm, I don't remember that one. But I haven't read the books in years. I just read Remember Me again, which is why that one stuck out.
Another one is how Tolkien's The Two Towers has some cameos by characters in The Fellowship of the Ring.
Lilty Cash - May 10, 2004 9:28:55 am PDT #2786 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
OK, now I know I'm messing up my titles, but I think the girl in Fall Into Darkness (as long as thats the one where the girl went over the cliff) referenced the one where the girl faked her death on the boat.
White-fonted in case someone is still making their way through the opus-es (what is the plural for opus? Opi?) of Christopher Pike. You never know.