I had this Howdy Doody book that I was obsessed with, and my mother hated. I can only remember as far back as being able to read it myself, but I'm sure I made her read it to me. It was hilarious! They made a big Howdy Doody out of food! Hilarious when you're 4, anyway...
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - Aug 18, 2010 5:04:17 pm PDT #12018 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
dcp - Aug 18, 2010 5:08:19 pm PDT #12019 of 28342
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Heh. Dad's Gollum-voice was pretty sinister, but very different from Andy Serkis's version.
Dad's put on his best faux-Cockney accent for the trolls Bert and Tom and William. Hilarious.
beth b - Aug 18, 2010 5:15:53 pm PDT #12020 of 28342
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Stress/comfort rereader too. I have been rereading Harry Potter at night, but a few other things during the day
Consuela - Aug 18, 2010 5:17:23 pm PDT #12021 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
How many books are in that series? Is there a drop off? Are they all worth it?
There's, um, five in the initial Tomorrow series. There's a bit of a dropoff; the last one is still exciting, but rather a downer. But my very favorite set-piece (a wild ride involving infiltrating an airfield, blowing up the fueling airplanes, and escaping in a dumptruck pursued by machine-gun-wielding enemies) is in the 3rd or 4th book, I think.
There's a second series set after the end of the first, but while it's psychologically very plausible, it's also much less fun.
I do a lot of rereading: particularly Bujold & Pratchett these days. I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2010 5:19:05 pm PDT #12022 of 28342
Dad didn't do voices so much as intonation. Though I can hear his Gollum, slowly, slithery, lispy in my head...
Ginger - Aug 18, 2010 5:27:28 pm PDT #12023 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life. I have mixed feelings about the second series, and it was definitely more depressing. I've read the Tomorrow books several times too.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2010 5:32:25 pm PDT #12024 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.
FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.
WE WILL READ THE SAME BOOKS AND WREAK HAVOC!
-t - Aug 18, 2010 5:36:24 pm PDT #12025 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.
That I do. I like Alexander McCall Smith for that, especially.
dcp - Aug 18, 2010 6:26:51 pm PDT #12026 of 28342
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
There were two books I remembered liking a lot when I read them in 4th grade, but couldn't remember the titles of later. Google helped me figure out they were Owls in the Family and Follow My Leader.
I wonder how they will hold up to re-reading.
Consuela - Aug 18, 2010 7:30:25 pm PDT #12027 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life.
They do have to do that, yes. I just don't find the sequence with the POW camp all that pleasant. It all gets a bit more grim in the last one, I guess, as you start to see what the new status quo will be.
Ginger, did you hear that if this movie does well, they'll be making it a trilogy? Interesting.