Vandermar & Croup are freaking scary

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Was v. v. bored last night with LJ on the down & outs, and no one around to play cards with, and nothing interesting on tv.

In a moment of whimsy, I jumped in my little car went driving out in far too heavy rain to the nearest Barnes & Noble, and bought Neverwhere by Neil Gaimon. At nearly 10:30 or so, not long before closing. When I'm alreayd in the middle of about 6 other books, and textbooks on top of that.

I got home, read 107 pages (as opposed to my usual attention span of 20-40). I did the dishes, and read 30 more, and went to bed.

I read another 11 pages standing in the cashier line at my college office, waiting to buy a parking sticker.

I love this book.

Now: onward. Things to do. People to damage.

Comments

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love Neverwhere (and am in the middle of a big Neil Gaiman reread myself). You might like American Gods as well. And yes, Vandemar and Croup are brilliant! (Oh, another "urban fantasy" that I really like is Emma Bull's War for the Oaks, which is set in Minneapolis and has what I think of as a very Carabas-like character in it - and I've heard good things about China Mieville as well, but I haven't read any of his stuff yet.) Heh! I probably shouldn't mention even MORE books that are not textbooks or the six books you're currently reading! ;)

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

:grin: Thank you for the recs though... I love fantasy books. I remember reading a shorter one I relaly liked called "Street Magic", but I never found anything else by the same author.

I remember reading a book in like fourth grade that was actually too old for me I think, cause when I think back on it now, I probably missed a lot of the subtlties. Anyway, it was called "Troll Taken", by Rose Estes, and it was all about this woman who realizes her very very young infant has been kidnapped, and replaced with a changling child. It was a very tense, very strange tense book, but I liked it.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I love fantasy books.

Oh, me too - ever since I first read The Chronicles of Narnia (probably before you were born!) I have a fairly sizeable library of 'em, in fact!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I read the Narnia books--way young. I remember in fifth grade some people were doing book reports on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and I was sitting back with my copy of Jurassic Park thinking "Gosh, I read the Narnia books before third grade! Why are people so slow?" But that also had to do with my reading books during recess and lunchtime. I was a little bookworm.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Also, another book that I loved was Clive Barker's The Thief of Always. It's very easy to read, and I think was oriningally aimed at a young adult audience, but it's still one of my favorites. There's a great showdown at the end between the Big Bad and anything in the imagination of the main character, a young boy.

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[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Oooh, noting that one down! Lots of people have mentioned Clive Barker to me, but somehow I always had the impression that his books are really, REALLY violent. Maybe I'll start with this one! Gah! More BOOKS! NOOOOOO!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Well, I started to read his book Weaveworld, and I didn't like it as much. The gore was too high, without grabbing my interest enough to keep me reading. I never finsihed that one. But The Thief of Always has some violence, but not so much that I was overly put off by it. Actually, I first listened to it on audio, which was a little scary when i was like 13. Then last year (four years later) I found the paperback on sale really cheap, and bought it. I liked it as much the second time.