I was depressed yet fascinated by the Covenant books when I read them 12 years ago because they were so unlike anything I'd read before. I'm not sure how they'd hold up now with practically my entire adult reading experience behind me (including much, much more fantasy--at the time I'd only ever read Narnia and the Belgariad).
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
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. - Oct 25, 2005 8:34:43 am PDT #9284 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Dana - Oct 25, 2005 8:34:48 am PDT #9285 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I liked the Mordant's Need series (aka the Mirror Books), but I've been afraid to reread them for a while now, in case I discover that I had no taste as a teenager.
No, that's never happened to me before, why do you ask?
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2005 8:35:23 am PDT #9286 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, that's never happened to me before, why do you ask?
C'mon now. Didn't we all read Xanth?
Susan W. - Oct 25, 2005 8:36:36 am PDT #9287 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
No, that's never happened to me before, why do you ask?
Hee. I'm afraid to try any of the historical fiction I adored growing up (an eclectic assortment--Pearl Buck, Belva Plain, Eugenia Price, Alexandra Ripley, Herman Wouk, John Jakes, Taylor Caldwell) for fear of discovering the exact same thing.
Dana - Oct 25, 2005 8:36:42 am PDT #9288 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yes, fine, I admit it, there was an unspoken "Piers Anthony" in that sentence.
Volans - Oct 25, 2005 8:38:23 am PDT #9289 of 10002
move out and draw fire
What would teenagers read if it weren't for Piers Anthony?
Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2005 8:39:16 am PDT #9290 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Didn't we all read Xanth?
yes
DXMachina - Oct 25, 2005 8:40:40 am PDT #9291 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Didn't we all read Xanth?
no
Kate P. - Oct 25, 2005 8:41:07 am PDT #9292 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I tried to read the first Thomas Covenant book and got maybe 25 pages into it before losing interest. I thought it was really dull. I'm surprised so many other people liked (or at least finished) them. Maybe they pick up...?
eta: also, did not read any Piers Anthony books. I win!
Jessica - Oct 25, 2005 8:41:40 am PDT #9293 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Didn't we all read Xanth?
Please. As if I'd ever admit it in public.