I've read a lot of those Lemony Snickett books! (what a delightful name!)
The roommate I lived with for a while that I was pregnant had most of the
series. I really enjoyed them.
But as for reading, I don't think I've picked up a book, just for reading,
in over a month. I'm serious. I get up, go to work, come home, entertain
the baby, put her to bed, and fall exhausted on my pillow. Not much room
in there for frivolous reading. I can feel my brain turning to much.
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
Schizo
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posted on 5/3/2003 at 04:30 AM
I mean, mush! (I'm not awake yet!)
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
Catiana
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posted on 5/3/2003 at 09:31 PM
so many good thoughts here! I know its soooooo 'not goth' to be loving
anne rice. when will i learn? (hits own head with large object)
Anyways, i agree that there is too much description... i skip entire
paragraphs sometimes. but i have this urge.... this rice lust to find out
everything about all the different characters and the families to just keep
on reading!!
i havent read any poppy z brite or storm constantine but i will now!
thanks for the authors. all the best books i have read i got off "goth"
book lists. (even though most of them were far from gothic!) hmm hmm yes
yes well must go now
I think the only "goth" type thing I read at all are horror stories, and
most of the horror authors are well...rather nerdy. Nerdy guys have the
most messed up brains, I swear.
I like robert a. henlein (spelled?) "stranger in a strange land" and Dean
Koontz (MAN he musta been teased something AWFUL over his name *lol*) is
good readin friends. My husband buys me one when he sees I'm gettin close
to the end of the one I'm on...and I read rather fast, so you can imagine
my book collection! (the only other thing he griped at me about when we
moved, was moving my books. First in line was my shoes. I have too many
shoes. Or so he says..)
Books are an addiction, I swear, and who the fuck cares if it's "gothornot"
as long as you're enjoying what you read? To me there is nothing better
than a bathtub, a pack of cigarettes, a couple drinks and a book. That,
friends is HEAVEN. I've literally read in the tub so long that the water
went cold, and I had to half drain it and refill it. I looked like a 90
year old woman from the shoulders down.
____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
Merry_Widow
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 01:14 AM
I liked Heinlein okay. I thought the end to Stranger was a little
dissapointing. Koontz on the other hand...I loved his book, Midnight. That
was just good stuff. I really like how a lot of his villians are really
nerdy little bastards. He's just an awesome writer.
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KatB
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 03:48 AM
Cigarettes? Not quitting?
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Closetgothbabe
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 03:55 PM
The Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty trilogy was good......hehe
Starlight
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 10:30 PM
Yep it was a beauty (pun intended *G*)...plenty of spanking and sex to keep
you reading.
____________________ "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
Eh, Kat, my momma never raised a quitter *snort*
I just can't do it right now (yeah yeah excuses and such...bah). I figure
when I no longer have to fight the urge to keep my car from flying over a
steep mountain side, I'll stop. Or when I no longer have to control my
"bad hand" disorder (you know, a "posessed hand"..one hand acts on it's own
and does bad things...it's an actual disorder, you know) I'll stop...you
know, when I don't wanna kill.
If ONLY I could develope pnemonia like my coworker and quit that way *sigh*
some girls have all the luck.
ANYWAY....
I have to agree that I didn't like the ending of "stranger/strange land" at
ALL..but overall it was a good book. Not top, but henlein isn't too
shabby.
I think my favorite dean koontz book is a tossup between "intensity" and
"ticktock"...tho I have to say, ticktock kept me up for DAYS because it had
a fucking posessed voodoo doll that hatched a fucking monster and shit
*SCREAM* and I have this thing with dolls....
Dean Koontz is a messed up man. I dig him.
Stephen King and Peter Straub's "black house" was SPECTACULAR...VERY hard
to get through the first oh...150 pages, but once you get past that point
it's VERY hard to put down. Creepy as shit, I tell you.
And "the coming global superstorm" by art bell and whitley streiber...I
liked the alternating chapters of scientific fact and historical
documentation with the fictional portrayal of events to come should things
follow the seemingly inevitable path laid out by nature and history.
To me the best anne rice book was Memnoch the Devil. But I repeat
myself...I thoroughly enjoyed that one...even with prissy pants in the
whole thing.
____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
KittyGoesMrow
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posted on 18/7/2003 at 03:22 PM
Mmm I love her erotic novels... all the bondage and shtuff. mmmm. WHIP MEH
PLEASE!
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 18/7/2003 at 08:22 PM
So, I read them out of order as well. I read the first two, then read "The
Tale of the Body Theif" and then I just finished the Queen of the Damned.
Doesn't really matter, because there is still the suspense.
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think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
Anya
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posted on 18/7/2003 at 08:24 PM
All I have to say is I loved Memnoch the Devil.
Nicholas
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posted on 19/7/2003 at 11:00 AM
The body thief was pretty cool too
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and a time to cast pudding away"
PoeticChaos
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posted on 20/7/2003 at 09:50 AM
Anne Rice is sort of blan to me. But then again, I'm only 77pages into
Vittorio and I really haven't read anything else. But the movie Queen of
the Damned was pretty good, though I heard that it is nothing like the book
and is more of a combination between The
Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned.
Anyhow, I have read some other vampire and fantasy authors and I believe
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes to be the best so far. She's written four books (In
the Forests of the Night, Demon In My View, Shattered Mirror, and Midnight
Predator) that have all been rather amazing in the twist of plots because
she only uses one or two characters from the preceding book in the new
storyline. She also wrote her first book when she was like fourteen and it
has a rather mature aura (if you can call it that) about it and she's just
gotten better with age.
I've also read some of the Dragonlance series and they were rather
interesting. The Deed of Paksenarrion *spelling?* is a twisted trilogy that
has a lot of military knowledge and battles in it; I think it was written
by Elizabeth Moon, but I have a feeling my memory is deceiving me. Tolkien
has always been one of my favorite authors and Moon pulls some of her
knowledge from his books. The last book and author I would like to suggest
is The Lost Years of Merlin, by T.A. Barron.