Books

Yes,mom,I like Cornwall,and if you would take the time to read earlier posts,you would know this.Wink,wink,nudge,nudgeJust kidding Ma!You're so cute...I could squeeze the tar outtaya.

THE LOVED ONE is one of my favorites too. Whispering Glades and Happier Hunting Grounds for dead pets. I love his morbid wit. And didn't you like DECLINE AND FALL? I would think it would be right up your alley. Royalty, boarding schools and the British prison system? Its good Pigsnie at least gives you good books to read--even if he does beat you with popsicles .

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welcome to the board, Neesee.

I've only read one book of his and that's STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER. A friend recommended it. He said if I wanted to write about life inside a pack of Camel cigarettes, this would be it. LOL. I don't even smoke. But I love to write for my own pleasure. [/b][/quote]

ANNE RICE: I don't care for THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. Armand and his Pack leave me cold. I prefer the Mayfair Witch/Lasher series. I love the way she wrote about each generation of Mayfair witch . . . I wish she could have developed more books about each of them. The SLEEPING BEAUTY books (PLite, Shut your eyes) got a bit tiresome after the third book -- ooh, there are only 3 right? (The plot wasn't challenging.) but if you haven't read RAMESES THE DAMNED--its almost Victorian in atmos.

i never read the anne rice books, but i knew this girl that was fanatical about them. have you ever seen her in interviews and stuff? she's a kook! lol, i'm just teasing.... she's a little eccentric, which is cool if you're an artist anyway. what are her books like? are they ALL about vampires?

Yeah, I've heard about the Waugh/Auden/Isherwood thing. Actually, I was poking around Amazon.com earlier today, and apparently there's a second edition, which was released in 1983 (still too early for Hellman vs. McCarthy ). Apparently the author died recently, so I guess we won't be seeing any more editions.

I'll be sure to look for this one, Sades. I just looked it up on Amazon, and the names of some of the authors were on the cover. I wish Amazon would print the Table of Contents of each book so I could see all the authors in it. Looks good though.
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Anne Rice is Beyond Eccentric! And her son is even more peculiar than she is. Her house has Gothic trappings--maybe it helps her write.

But Anne Rice writes about other creatures as well--castrati (CRY TO HEAVEN), Sleeping Beauty (a trilogy of "classy" porn--think a more palatable version of De Sade)published under the pseudonym Roquelaure, sex slaves and New Orleans--think "Story of O" with longer words (EXIT TO EDEN), a haunted Stradivarius (VIOLIN) and genies (SERVANT OF THE BONES)

I have looked through some chaps of Beautys punishment. Aaaaacckkkk, pretty grossss!! I think after some of what Beauty went through, shed look pretty beat up.

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Not all are about vampires,but all have religous undertones.To me, that makes them very interesting because she is very knowlegeable about different religous practices and you can learn alot while also reading a good ghost or vampire story. Her only daughter died at a very early age which prompted Ann to do alot of soul searching and to mainly question her own Catholic upbringing. I feel this comes into play with her "Beauty" books. She does seem alittle "off" in her interviews, but I think that's the case with a number of gifted and talented people. I know this first hand because sadesdrk was tested as very gifted when she was a child and she was strange, it's a long story, I love her anyway!!

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I'll be sure to look for this one, Sades. I just looked it up on Amazon, and the names of some of the authors were on the cover. I wish Amazon would print the Table of Contents of each book so I could see all the authors in it. Looks good though.
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Here are some of the featured authors and the stories they have in the book.I highly reccomend this to you:
-Amy Tan-the Voice From the Wall
-Truman Capote-My Side of the Matter(so funny,you'll laugh out loud.)
-A & P-John Updike(I love him!)
-Shirley Jackson-The Lottery
-John Cheever-the Five-Forty-Eight
I know you'll like the stories I mentioned,and there's a whole bunch more.It's called Points of View because they break the table of contents down by the narrator(1st person,3rd person...)

me too! no lie, i'm not being sarcastic. i can still remember being called down to the guidance office in second grade to be tested for special classes. it's a strange feeling for a little kid, for sure. i think i get it from my mom's side of the family. she's naturally a very verbal person and my granddad read to me from the time i was an infant. oh, well... you're right about idiosyncratic people, though. it's called artistic temperament, and it's awesome

which rice book do you recommend for a person who's never read ANY of her stuff? i think i'm gonna check it out, because i've never heard anything but good things about her....

I'm not going to go bragging concerning my "stuff," but I think it's obvious that the overwhelming majority of the regulars here are highly intelligent.

must.... stop... laughing.... must.... stop.... laughing.... *gasping for air*........

Thanks mom...everyone is so much better off knowing this information.Strange? Contemplate the source.The nut doesn't fall far from the tree...

well, BodieMan, i think her first book is also the best place to start, though you probably saw "Interview with a Vampire" the book is far better. Also equally enjoyable is "The Tale of the Body Thief" although this is a sequal to "Queen of the Damned" it is a good read all on it's own and you won't be lost not having read the others, but you could start in order with the first in the Vampire Chronicles, which is"Interview with the Vampire" then "The Vampire Lestat" followed by "Queen of the Damned."another good one,
"Cry to Heaven" is an interesting story of a young boy sold into the choir of the church (after being castrated) in order to preserve a soprano voice, shocking,little known stuff."eek"

WOW! All these giftedness on Mofo .. makes me want to start a thread of us lessor mortals ..

Thanks again for the recommendation, Sades. I think I'll go order it (along with the 2nd Edition of Fine Art...) on Amazon after I'm done here.

In addition to the talented authors you've listed, I see from the cover image that Dorothy Parker, Henry James, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, and lots of others are also in this collection.

I'm sure I will enjoy it. Much appreciated.

Let me know how you like it.Start a short story thread or something...we'll discuss.

MY FAVORITE BOOKS:

TOM CLANCY's EVERYTHING (but especially WITHOUT REMORSE, RED STORM RISING and CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN--Wart turned me on to these books because I liked HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER so much. (I only watched it for ALEC BALDWIN at first) but now I read them after Wart reads them. I can't afford books yet.

X-FILES novelizations by Kevin Anderson

THOMAS HARRIS--all his books

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT by R.J. Rummel
This is about how government has been responsible for its own citizens like Pol Pot and Mao and Stalin

THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by Tolkien

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

THE CIVIL WAR by Shelby Foote

I'm sure this list will change some more as I read more books because Wart & TinTin have a lot on their shelves. (Some of them are still in store plastic.) People tell me I have weird taste for a teen but thats because I read my brother's books. Sometimes I wish he has comic books.

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There are so many great books I love!

Les Miserables, The Once and Future King, A Tale of Two Cities, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Lord of the Ring series, and the Harry Potter series just to name a few...

Anne of Green Gables and Little Women will always hold a special place in my heart because I loved them as a child.

As you can see, I'm a great lover of the classics, especially the British ones!!