Vox Hunt: Fictional Favorite
Book: Show us one of your favorite works of fiction.
This is one of the few books I re-read from time to time. I love the themes of youthful insecurity and captured time, and I empathize so deeply with the new Mrs DeWinter. I sometimes give new copies of this book as a gift, but my keeper copy is an old hardcover.
I do want to warn anybody buying a new copy to avoid the Avon edition. The one I saw listed Du Maurier as the author of Susan Hill's dreadful sequel attempt. What an insult!!
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You might laugh when you hear this (read this)...
I used to be big on books when I was waaay younger, and I favored things like "Judy Blume" books, "Encyclopedia Brown" mysteries, and Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mysteries.
Speaking of Hardy Boys, I hear there's a movie version coming with Tom Cruise. -Hope it blows away the old series, which now seems a little gay.
Yeah, I read all the kid-lit mysteries. Encyclopedia Brown, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Happy Hollisters, Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames... And I think I made my way through a good chunk of the Blume oeuvre as well.
I doubt I'll watch the new Hardy Boys movie. I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan. Never have been, and am even less so after all the Scientology nonsense came to light.
C'mon now... You don't have to be a fan to enjoy a movie. No "star" is ever bigger than the story. It's the story that creates stars, not the other way around. -And, I LOVE a good story!
I was sick of the whole Sci-fi-tology thing 17 years ago. (we called them all sci-fi's) -I lived in Clearwater Florida for 15 years, and it's all pretty much owned by that cult. (-That's where I went after finally leaving Marshall, during my freshman year in HS)
I lost CRUISE control at about the same time everyone else did, 'tho I never was his biggest fan anyways. -It won't keep me away from a new, and semi-interesting story/movie. Granted, I'll wait for the DVD 'tho.