Kingdom of Knuffel

Hm, humans becoming divine... humans becoming vampires... I guess I could see how it connects. XD I liked Anne Rice's vampires, mostly, and the concept from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You can either PM it to me or post it here. >>b

Ohhh Anne Rice. I keep meaning to read her books, but I get a few chapters into Interview With the Vampire and end up getting distracted and moving on to another book. I am tempted to read her crazy Jesus books though, just for laughs.

Aight, I'll get it together sometime and post/send it then. ^^

You said you might have some book recs? I mostly read fantasy/sci-fi, but am willing to try out anything (for serious).

@Meme: Ah, I remember reading the first few pages of Interview and falling in love with her writing style. Very... eloquent, I think it was. Around her third book in the series it started turning too adult for me though, and after the fourth I put it down and decided that I had enough of that and it wasn't worth it to go on (good writing or not good writing, it was just too much for me.)

Never going to read her other stuff for sure, but man, I loved Louis and Lestat. XD So much fun to read.

My favorite book is "The Thief" by Megan Whalen Turner. It isn't very fantasy-like, aside from having gods in them, but the protagonist is pretty darn lovable. XD He's such... makes you want to punch him sometimes... he manages to impress you other times... always keeps me laughing... *falls over*

"Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones is again, very good, very fantasy-like. Miyazaki made an anime of it; basically it's about a girl under enchantment and a wizard she ends up working for.

"The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf" by Gerald Morris was a favorite in high school, about a girl who tries to fetch a knight from King Arthur's round table to rescue her sister from the unwanted attentions of a rouge knight. Instead she finds herself with a kitchen boy and a dwarf; very funny.

"The Perilous Gard" by Elizabeth Marie Pope was one of the ones I've recently...ish... read. It involves fairy folk... it was pretty interesting.


@Rumors: Tell me if they're any good. :)

Ahhh, I love Howl's Moving Castle. That's one of those books that I read every summer to make me feel a little better about life. I was so sad when I found out Jones had passed...

What, she did? I didn't know that.

Have you read her other books as well? There are two others connected to "Howl's Moving Castle."

Yeah. I've...actually read everything she's ever published. When I like an author, I reeeaaaally get into them. XD

Whoa, nice. XD I've only read the ones connected to Howl's Moving Castle, though I plan to read others when I have the opportunity. Which one of her works do you like best?

"The Dark Lord of Derkholm" is pretty amusing...and I really liked the first volume of her "Chronicles of Chrestomanci" series. The other volumes aren't bad by any means, but that first volume is another book that's on my "read every summer" list.

Ah, I feel that way about "Howl's Moving Castle." XD The first ones are generally the best.

At least for her, yes. Other authors seem to take a volume or two to really get up to steam...like George R.R. Martin...I'm contemplating whether I'm going to fork over the big bucks for the hardcover volume of the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series when it first comes out, or whether I'm going to wait for it to go to paperback so that all my volumes are the same size and shape.

I wonder when the library will order a copy of it...maybe I'll read theirs...