Please discuss.
She's a biter.
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
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."
DavidS - Jan 23, 2012 8:49:18 am PST #17555 of 28262
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Jan 23, 2012 8:56:04 am PST #17556 of 28262
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Also, the translation of her gibberish is a gimmick that has not gotten old for me (while the definition-of-words thing is more scattershot and got old in the first book). I think it's because it continues to depict her character as absurdly mature for a baby. Also, baby characters are totally adorable in audiobook form (see also: A Dirty Job).
So far, The Reptile Room is my favorite. I'm glad to see this fourth book is at least attempting to break the standard formula, although I don't like the setting as much.
JZ - Jan 23, 2012 9:50:22 am PST #17557 of 28262
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Have you seen the movie, P-C? The scenes that were based on The Reptile Room just broke me -- not only do I shallowly just want to live in that house, but Billy Connolly gave such an amazingly warm, affectionate, heartfelt performance as Uncle Monty.
Polter-Cow - Jan 23, 2012 9:55:55 am PST #17558 of 28262
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Whaaaat, I thought the movie only covered the first book!
Is the movie good? I was thinking of watching it after I finish.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2012 10:04:14 am PST #17559 of 28262
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is the movie good? I was thinking of watching it after I finish.
Everything about the movie is great. Except Jim Carrey. Who, unfortunately, is in all of it. But the design is great, the actors are great (including Meryl Streep in a great comic role), the end credits are great, the kid actors are great.
All except Jim Carrey. Being very Jim Carrey-ish.
Atropa - Jan 23, 2012 10:09:50 am PST #17560 of 28262
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Everything about the movie is great. Except Jim Carrey.
This is why I haven't rewatched it since I saw it in the theatre. Jim Carrey made me SO MAD.
JZ - Jan 23, 2012 10:12:27 am PST #17561 of 28262
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The movie covers at least the first three books, possibly with bits and pieces of later ones. Carrey is a huge black hole of suck, and he's everywhere, but virtually everything else about it is pretty damn stunning. Connolly and Streep are especially great--excruciatingly comical, then turn on a dime and, without changing anything about the characters or the way they play them, gently and tenderly crush your heart.
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2012 10:19:33 am PST #17562 of 28262
brillig
Oh, Uncle Monty . . .
I get very tired of "And they lived happily ever after--until we crushed their hopes and dreams again and they're miserable."
-t - Jan 23, 2012 12:51:29 pm PST #17563 of 28262
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. and Dawn and anyone else who may have raved about Skullduggery Pleasant, thank you! I finally got around to reading the first one and it's just wonderful. I'm already thinking about what I will do when I run out of easily accessible e-books in the series...
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2012 1:10:12 pm PST #17564 of 28262
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just bit the bullet and ordered them from Amazon UK.
TANITH LOW FOREVER.