I know I started with the second one (The Dark is Rising) first, and it wasn't until much later that I even realized that Over Sea, Under Stone was part of the same series. I reread the whole series a few years ago and found them lacking, though I'd adored them as a child, but The Dark is Rising is still compelling and my favorite of the series. You might at least give that one a try, lisah, if you're still interested. I think it's different enough from Over Sea, Under Stone that you might like it. (I find it's best read at midwinter, though, for the full effect.)
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Kate P. - Sep 26, 2007 5:49:15 am PDT #3958 of 28736
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Emily - Sep 26, 2007 5:49:26 am PDT #3959 of 28736
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, is the first one Over Sea, Under Stone? I always forget that.
I might say, give the second one a try, as I remember liking that one much better, but don't beat yourself over the head with it.
ETA: Or, you know, almost exactly WKPS.
lisah - Sep 26, 2007 5:56:29 am PDT #3960 of 28736
Punishingly Intricate
I might say, give the second one a try, as I remember liking that one much better, but don't beat yourself over the head with it.
I might try it then. I'm also wondering if they'd be appropriate to pass on to my voracious reader of a 9-year old niece. She LOVED the HP and Narnia series.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2007 6:08:28 am PDT #3961 of 28736
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
This just in: The Borough I live in sucks, and it's stupid of me to try and seek redemption from my traumatic childhood; that's not how real life works.
Maybe I'm taking this a little too personally.
Jessica - Sep 26, 2007 6:22:21 am PDT #3962 of 28736
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What a whiny piece of crap that article is.
Emily - Sep 26, 2007 6:22:32 am PDT #3963 of 28736
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Self-righteous sour grapes define their attitude to Gotham.
Wow. Projecting much? Seriously, I'm not a fan of sentimentalism...ism, but he makes happy endings and closure sound like a crime against literature.
The whole thing seems to boil down to "those dirty hippies/bohemians/yuppies/idealists, they wouldn't know an honest day's narrative labor if it hit them in the face!"
Emily - Sep 26, 2007 6:26:26 am PDT #3964 of 28736
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
In fact, trauma’s never overcome. That’s what defines it.
Says who? It all makes me wonder if maybe he has a point buried under all that, but the bitterness, inferiority complex, and anger buried it before it could see light.
lisah - Sep 26, 2007 6:29:30 am PDT #3965 of 28736
Punishingly Intricate
I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Pompous ass-h.
Also, I love Brooklyn. It's one of my most favorite places to visit. so there!
Nutty - Sep 26, 2007 6:44:22 am PDT #3966 of 28736
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
What a whiny piece of crap that article is.
Seconded. Also, Brooklyn? As the center of anything? I think that is called "it would be Manhattan except hey guess what we're not millionaires."
And if it were Manhattan, nobody would say boo to a goose about it.
Jessica - Sep 26, 2007 6:52:39 am PDT #3967 of 28736
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If I woke up a millionaire tomorrow, I wouldn't move to Manhattan. My lottery fantasies all involve Cobble Hill brownstones.