Comments on: Ally Blue: Five Faves

By: Ally Blue

Ally Blue — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:12:44 +0000

Josh, your story totally brightened my day, week, month and year, and I really did need it. You have no idea :)

You have to have to HAVE TO read some Clive!! OMG. I <3 him like whoa, for real. He's a wonderful novelist — I picked up Abarat at a used book store and ate it up, and I loved The Damnation Game — but I am still quite partial to the Books Of Blood series. I've said it before, but "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament" is my favorite, though I didn't list it here because I didn't feel it was an actual influence. That's one of the few female-protag stories of any description where I read it and went "OMFG how did he get in my BRAIN like that???"
And if you read it don't let that freak you out either because I swear I can't kill people with my mind O_O

By: josh lanyon

josh lanyon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:23:03 +0000

PIPPI. Heh. Great one.

Barker has been on my TBR forever.

Thanks, Ally, for adding my little Christmas story to your list. I’m so glad it was there for you at the right time! Hope the holidays are bright and happy from this point on. *g*

By: Ally Blue

Ally Blue — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:21:10 +0000

Oh and Wave! Thank you, mwah! And you’re right, Brokeback Mtn is SO sad. It’s just that the way it’s written is so astoundingly GOOD. Plus I’m a total masochist that way. Sometimes I just need a good cry and man, that one always does it for me.

By: Ally Blue

Ally Blue — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:17:27 +0000

Mr. Pig, I’m totally looking that stuff up. Thank you :D

LB, I swear, I had a REALLY hard time coming up with stuff for this list. Ask the piggy-man, he had to keep poking me. Not like that!! But yeah. The thing is, as much as I love me some Lovecraft, I think that in the end, his writing didn’t really influence mine much. If that makes sense O_O
BTW, OT but not really, but anyone who hasn’t seen Re-Animator really should. Is genius *g*

Dakota, I know just what you mean. What we read as children takes on an extra dimension, because it’s new to us. It’s all purer somehow.

By: Wave

Wave — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:45:52 +0000

Ally
You know how I feel about Untamed Heart – it made my Top 10 last year.

Stranger in a Strange Land is an annual re-read for me. I can’t bring myself to re-read Brokeback – too sad.

By: Dakota Flint

Dakota Flint — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:30:03 +0000

Pippi! I loved seeing what writers read as children/young adults. There was such magic in the reading experience then, wasn’t there? Not to say there isn’t now, as well, but it’s a different kind of magic, isn’t it? And rarer. I never thought as a kid, the pacing is off in the middle or the characters felt one-dimensional. *g*

Thanks for sharing your list, Ally!

By: LBea

LBea — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:25:01 +0000

Pippi. My sister and I loved her. And my sis looked just like her–so Halloween costume for Kimmy was always a snap.

Honest, I thought I’d see Lovecraft on your list–but this rocks. :)

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:42:20 +0000

Very early 50′s kids sci-fi with build it yourself space ships and mysterious mushroom men from invisible worlds that orbit our planet. Just great fantasy sci-fi stuff and pretty nicely written too.

By: Ally Blue

Ally Blue — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:25:30 +0000

Tam, OMG you have to read the Pippi books!! Do you know I didn’t even realize there was a TV show? LOL. I saw the movie though.
**resists comment about Tam’s illicit affair with underage elephant**

Mr. Piggy, you and Chris have me curious about these other books. Mushroom Planet??? I feel I have missed out O_O

kelgar01, thank you very much! Glad you liked the books :D Untamed Heart kicked my ass, it really did, but I do think it was worth it in the end.

By: kelgar01

kelgar01 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:57:07 +0000

Good choice for your own book! I had read the BCPI books and enjoyed them, so I went looking for others by you. This was the first one that I picked and I thought it was just incredible. Very moving.