I was hooked on how unrelentingly bleak it all was.
The Bloodguard kept me interested.
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
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."
Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2005 10:19:01 am PDT #9307 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2005 10:20:51 am PDT #9308 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was hooked on Interview With a Vampire in college, but not high school-- Piers Anthony was more around 5th and 6th grade. I read so much at that point in my life that the ratio of crap to decent stuff was probably pretty good. But I averaged about 10 - 12 books per week from the library, plus whatever was around at home.
Connie Neil - Oct 25, 2005 10:21:23 am PDT #9309 of 10002
brillig
Xanth got boring quickly. Zelazny and Andre Norton did it for me.
Atropa - Oct 25, 2005 10:23:41 am PDT #9310 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I couldn't make it past page 4 on Interview with a Vampire.
When you're a sixteen-year old babybat, it's THE BEST BOOK EVAR!!
Of course, if I were a sixteen-year old babybat nowadays, I'd be hooked on Vampire Kisses and Kissing Coffins. More than I am right now, I mean.
Jessica - Oct 25, 2005 10:24:15 am PDT #9311 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I knew Xanth was crap even when I was reading them, but the sheer volume of books in the series kept me reading because there was something comforting about the knowledge that I'd never run out. Other series, I'd get to the end and then be pissed that there weren't more of them, and at least Xanth never disappointed me that way.
Atropa - Oct 25, 2005 10:25:50 am PDT #9312 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I knew Xanth was crap even when I was reading them, but the sheer volume of books in the series kept me reading because there was something comforting about the knowledge that I'd never run out.
Yep, same here.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2005 10:49:12 am PDT #9313 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah -- when he seems to be writing faster than you can read, at first that felt good, and then it felt really bad.
Emily - Oct 25, 2005 1:23:47 pm PDT #9314 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
What would teenagers read if it weren't for Piers Anthony?
Heinlein? Oddly, I think I got both Anthony and Heinlein from my father. Actually, I think I got Stranger from my mother. But we've worked past that now.
I knew Xanth was crap even when I was reading them, but the sheer volume of books in the series kept me reading because there was something comforting about the knowledge that I'd never run out.
Yeah. I made it all the way to that one about the devil until my patience grew too thin (and, perhaps, my taste too great) and it joined the thrown-across-the-room club. It's an elite club for me -- just that and a romance novel, possibly a Jude Deveraux or Johanna Lindsey oh my god why do I still remember their names!?
(Edited, as it happens, to try to camouflage my "actually" addiction. In fact, I just use it socially. Really, I can stop any time I want to.)
Jars - Oct 25, 2005 1:37:06 pm PDT #9315 of 10002
I read Anne Rice. Oh, how I read Anne Rice. Also a lot of John Grisham. No, I don't know either.
Strega - Oct 25, 2005 1:41:42 pm PDT #9316 of 10002
I never read the Xanth books. My brother had some. But my dad had Bradbury, Sheckley, Asimov, Heinlein, Vonnegut, Dick...
I think my bias against sword & sorcery protected me, actually.