I thought of Amanda Quick, but her stuff is explicit enough that I would've felt the need to hide it from my mother at that age.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2004 7:28:01 am PDT #5199 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Volans - Jul 19, 2004 8:14:36 am PDT #5200 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I forgot that Aristoi was WJW. We just finished a game based on Hardwired, and I'd forgotten how much I liked that book. Need to read more of this author.
P.M. Marc - Jul 19, 2004 8:39:43 am PDT #5201 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I thought of Amanda Quick, but her stuff is explicit enough that I would've felt the need to hide it from my mother at that age.
Huh.
At that age, I think I was sharing them with my mother. (As in, she was borrowing them without permission, because it is my mother, and she does that with my books, the twerp.)
They are pretty explicit, though.
Any other mother, I'd probably have hidden them from. It's just that I happen to have one who spams me with blue jokes.
Miracleman - Jul 19, 2004 9:49:00 am PDT #5202 of 10002
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Re: Discworld
Have to agree with the Jingo love. Love re-reading it now, as it parallels events in our world, though the book pre-dates them.
And this is the book, for me, that shows Vetinari has a soul. He knows the price of what he does, completely.
"We're just bought and sold, aren't we?"
"...Men marched to war. And men marched back. Think of all the glorious battles they never had to fight. But you say 'bought and sold'? Perhaps. But not, I think, unwisely spent.
Veni, Vici...Vetinari."
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2004 9:51:58 am PDT #5203 of 10002
brillig
I love how Vimes has come to appreciate Vetinari. Vetinari's always appreciated Vimes.
juliana - Jul 19, 2004 10:11:09 am PDT #5204 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I love how Vimes has come to appreciate Vetinari. Vetinari's always appreciated Vimes.
True, but in Vimes' defense, it's very hard to trust and/or appreciate someone who you can't see approaching you. Doubly hard for a copper.
Jess M. - Jul 19, 2004 11:10:24 am PDT #5205 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Yeah, my mom gave me VC Andrews in middle school, and shared all my romance novels in high school (and still now, but I'm a little older) so I'm not a good judge of what books one would hide from parents/grandparents.
Nutty - Jul 19, 2004 11:33:35 am PDT #5206 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Your MOM gave you V. C. Andrews??
I mean, if could be weirder; it could be your brother giving you those books; but sheesh.
The funny part is that after Andrews died, the books written in her name didn't stop with the incest fetish. You would think it was just the author beating her personal horse, but apparently it's a whole niche market.
Steph L. - Jul 19, 2004 11:58:25 am PDT #5207 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Anyone read Midsummer, by Marcelle Clements? I finished it recently, and I'm dying for another opinion, to reassure me that I'm not a crackhead.
Aims - Jul 19, 2004 12:24:32 pm PDT #5208 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The funny part is that after Andrews died, the books written in her name didn't stop with the incest fetish. You would think it was just the author beating her personal horse, but apparently it's a whole niche market.
And she died pretty early in the run. I'm pretty sure that more books have been published after her death than before it.