lauralh: (wraith)
OK, OK. I started reading Twilight last week. I'm just about at the Actual Plot part. Which is 3/4 of the way into the book. I don't know if I can finish it.

[12:38] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: really i don't think i can make it past Vampire Baseball
[12:40] [livejournal.com profile] perich: now I'm hearing "vampire baseball" to the tune of the "softball" tune from that old Simpsons episode
[12:41] [livejournal.com profile] perich: "Vampire baaase-ball ... they're glittery and tragic ..."
[12:41] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: the insufferable romance was much better than Vampire Baseball.
[13:28] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: heh, from some snark on Twilight:
[13:28] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: "WE NEED A SUPERHERO MOVIE WHERE BOBBY DOWNEY AND CLIVE OWEN TEACH GIRLS TO KICK SPARKLY VAMPIRES' ASSES

I WOULD SEE THAT MOVIE
EVERY DAY"
[13:28] [livejournal.com profile] perich: bobby downey?
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: robert
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] perich: oh
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] perich: yes
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: i think those two really need to be in a movie together anyway
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] perich: and MAKE OUT
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] perich: right?
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: they don't NEED to make out
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] perich: ha
[13:29] [livejournal.com profile] herbaliser: i have a good imagination
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Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend
One of the earliest "drug memoirs." Fictionalized account of Crowley's life, retold in a magnificent Edwardian splendor of verbiage.
A.L. Kennedy, Paradise
A Scottish woman's story of her attempts to quit drinking. Hilarious if painful.

Dashiel Hammet, The Thin Man
Er, another book about an alcoholic. Classic story about a dectectin' couple who investigate a dysfunctional family's patriarch.

Eddie Little, Another Day in Paradise
This one is about junkie safecrackers, and is based on Eddie Little's adolescence. Brutal and poignant.

Rob Thomas, Rats Saw God
I did like a few books that didn't involve drinking or drugs. This one's about a young man's high school clique, his first love, and how it all falls apart. By the creator of Veronica Mars.

Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
A morality play about a highly immoral man who nearly dies, and tries to find out who is responsible. His quest takes him throughout the solar system and beyond.

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Cynical Russian fantasy about the devil coming to Moscow to meet the a woman and her lover, the author of a realistic novel about Jesus.

Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Probably the "worst" of these, but one of my favorite vampire tales ever. A young girl follows her father in the hunt for Dracula, all over 60s Europe.

Tim Powers, Declare
One of the most creative explanations for Communist Russia ever.

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