Spike ,'Lineage'
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."
That may be the saddest thing I've ever seen.
And it reminds me, I've been meaning to post a link to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessismore. This is my pick for Best Animated Short this year, by a HUGE margin, and not just because it's about books.
I've been meaning to post a link to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessismore.
I posted that link last weekend: in Movies, I think. Isn't it WONDERFUL?
It is! Sorry I missed your link in Movies, I would have talked it up.
It's so sad and beautiful and WONDERFUL. If it doesn't win I will be shocked and dismayed.
Thanks for that link, ita--that is sad and wonderful.
RIP John Christopher.
The Tripod trilogy had a big effect on me. One of my favorite series growing up. I remember riding in a car with a classmate and we were comparing books we were reading. I pimped The White Mountains and The City of Gold and Lead to him, and he suggested I read this book I'd never heard of called The Hobbit.
I read those! I remember liking them, though not much about them has stuck with me. I sometimes mix him up with John Wyndham, who wrote Day of the Triffids. (Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
(Tripods, Triffids: it's easy to confuse them, right? Now I wonder who would win in a fight...)
Neither would defeat the Midwich Cuckoos.
Tripods are taller than triffids.
This is one of those times when an author dies, and I feel bad I never got around to thanking him for his work.
I loved the Tripods. Way more than the Triffids.