I was going to mention acid, but having never done it, I wasn't sure it was the effect I was going for.
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."
With the "Fear and Loathings"...
Book of Ruth too.
ETA- Oprah recs, not acid.
She picked The Deep End of the Ocean, right? There was all kinds of good stuff in that book.
But it was centered around Big Trauma, wasn't it? All of Oprah's books seem to have Big Trauma as their main theme.
Actually I think the Hunter S. Thompson's would attentively nod at the Castanedas, and then wander off in search of good booze and books that didn't take themselves quite so seriously, like hey those Tom Robbinses over there.
With the "Fear and Loathings"...
Actually, none of the other books like "Fear and Loathing," because it's completely indiscriminate with its drugs, happily taking combinations that would make even the most jaded books cringe. And then the "Fear and Loathings" either try to chatter incessantly about bookmarks and booklights and folded-down corners and people who write in books, or they start shooting at the sci-fi books, which never ever ends well, because the sci-fi books have all the good technology to fight back, and a few Michael Crichtons always end up as collateral damage.
I want to shop at Tep's bookstore...
Michael Crichtons
oh this reminds me. I think it was in Minearverse where he came up and some considered him science fiction and others very much did not. I just read in Book Lust where she classifies him as horror, as least she puts Jurrasic park there.
I just read in Book Lust where she classifies him as horror, as least she puts Jurrasic park there.
Buh? That's like counting Requiem for a Dream as horror (and it was, in a year with so few sci-fi/horror contenders).
My bookstore is not for the faint of heart. There are casualties all the time. For instance, many people have been clunked on the head when walking past the A section, from all the Jane Austens swooning and falling off the shelf. The problem was solved by putting them on a low shelf.
And don't even get me started on the Stephen King section....