I just finished a book that I think would appeal to many people here: The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Has anyone else read it?
I finished it about four days ago. I've only really just recovered.
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
billytea - Oct 23, 2004 6:19:51 pm PDT #6226 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Kate P. - Oct 23, 2004 7:42:25 pm PDT #6227 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
billytea, isn't it fabulous? What did you think of the ending? I was pretty devastated by Henry's death. I'd become so attached to him, and the whole thing with his feet was painful enough, but then for him to die like that so soon afterwards just seemed so monumentally unfair. But I wanted to see a little more of the rest of Clare's life, without him. I just don't want to believe that she did actually spend the next forty-odd years waiting to see him again, for that brief moment. I wanted better things for her, and Henry did too.
It's also just a beautifully-written book. P-C, I bet you'd like it a lot.
billytea - Oct 23, 2004 7:56:20 pm PDT #6228 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea, isn't it fabulous? What did you think of the ending?
I thought it was a marvellous book. But I don't think I can consider it from any distance. It was too close to how I feel about my own situation.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 11:51:12 am PDT #6229 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Example synopsis of the revolutionary heroine:
the story of a Special Forces captain who must figure out who is cloning government agents
Now, what do you have to do to that (in addition to adding a love interest) to make it in the romance genre, not the action genre.
Because if it were a story about a male Special Forces captain (who usually ended up getting the girl), it wouldn't be romance. It would be Clive Cussler thriller.
Susan W. - Oct 27, 2004 11:57:00 am PDT #6230 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Part of it is that balance between the romance and action/suspense portions of the story, but also it's because they're published by Harlequin/Silhouette and other romance publishers and shelved as romance.
Jesse - Oct 27, 2004 7:26:22 pm PDT #6231 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm about done with a book that might have some crossover appeal: Good News, Bad News, by David Wolstencroft. He's the creator of Spooks/MI-5. It's fun, although even if I didn't know he was a tv guy, there's a lot of tv in it -- it opens with an ultra-dramatic teaser, and then flashes back to the build-up.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2004 11:59:54 am PDT #6232 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
New Hannibal Lecter novel coming to a bookstore near you, and then a theater, of course.
Consuela - Oct 28, 2004 12:52:38 pm PDT #6233 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jesse, that sounds like a lot of fun.
(and slashy)
I'm so corrupted.
Jesse - Oct 28, 2004 3:51:05 pm PDT #6234 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wouldn't say it's slashy in the implementation, but that's me. YSMV.
JoeCrow - Oct 28, 2004 5:55:56 pm PDT #6235 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Oh, for God's sake, Harris. Let It Go. Didn't Hannibal wreck the character enough for you? It did for me. Argh.