When I read that, I thought if my brother and I spent that kind of time locked up together, only one of us would come out.
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
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 - Jul 20, 2004 10:14:14 am PDT #5227 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Amy - Jul 20, 2004 10:15:43 am PDT #5228 of 10002
Because books.
The continuation of their relationship further on creeped me out more.
I was twelve or thirteen when I read Flowers, and I remember being seriously wigged by what happened with Christopher. By the time they were living together in the ... second? third? ... book, I too was wigged on a different level. I didn't read any of the others (meaning the other series). Wait, that's a lie, I did read one of them ... possibly even My Sweet Audrina. I'll have to look up the description for that one.
My favorite was the second one, Petals on the Wind, in which They Almost Have a Normal Life. Or whichever one eventually took Cathy to New York to dance. I was so excited for her to get out and succeed, but the whole "revenge on my mother" thing got old, as did creepy Christopher.
Calli - Jul 20, 2004 10:40:48 am PDT #5229 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember being seriously wigged by what happened with Christopher.
I think I might have been wigged more if I had a brother or the likelyhood of ever getting one. As it was, the whole incest thing was more theoretically ewww-some than anything. On the otherhand, non-con sex? Followed up with later marrying the guy? That was something that I realized could happen to me (well, the former anyway). I was reading a bunch of Harlequin romance novels at the time that were using that as a recurring theme. I read the whole thing as, "It's ok if he rapes her if he loves her and marries her later." And I had a big hell, no! reaction.
Jess M. - Jul 20, 2004 10:48:56 am PDT #5230 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Yeah, I can't read any of those.
lisah - Jul 20, 2004 11:05:57 am PDT #5231 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
I thought if my brother and I spent that kind of time locked up together, only one of us would come out.
Heh! Me too!
Java cat - Jul 20, 2004 2:31:18 pm PDT #5232 of 10002
Not javachik
Ew. Someone told me the FitA books were horror, which, except for consuming all the Alfred Hitchcock short story anthologies that were published and some Stephen King novels, I avoid. So I did and I'm glad. I didn't know it was about incest until now. Ick.
I thought if my brother and I spent that kind of time locked up together, only one of us would come out.
Me, too. Him.
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 2:36:43 pm PDT #5233 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
But in Heaven she didn't do anything with her brother!
She slept with her uncle though.
Grandfather tried to rape her.
Yeah, I ain't helping.
erikaj - Jul 20, 2004 2:48:06 pm PDT #5234 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
In my case, Java, either way, bonus. We were at the height of sibling aggression. Even now, we'd better not get locked up together.
Java cat - Jul 20, 2004 3:16:58 pm PDT #5235 of 10002
Not javachik
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 3:23:40 pm PDT #5236 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My teenaged porn, aside from the actual porn (wow, that Candy was sure one dumb broad), was sci-fi. There was one series that had these lizard men with bipartite penises. Embarassingly, my parents still have my copy of ... whatever that was. And of course, Jondalar. Mmm, good.