Sheri Tepper's book Sideshow really fucked with my mind
Grass, Raising the Stones,
and
Sideshow
are the best things of Tepper's that I've read. I can see how Sideshow would be weird, and the twins finding pleasure together made perfect sense to me. You really need both Grass and Raising the Stones to get the most sense out of Sideshow.
Watership Down
gives me great joy. When Bigwig struggles to his feet and said, "My Chief Rabbit told me hold you here," and the invaders go, "Oh, my god, he's not the Chief Rabbit? There's someone *he* obeys??" Wonderful moment. I'm obviously very big into the "Here I am with my last breath, defying you" thing.
Wonderful moment.
Isn't that everyone's favorite moment of Watership Down?
Although I'm kind of fond of the bit where General Woundwort becomes a kind of generalized boogeyman for keeping little rabbit kids in control.
I prefer more realistic fiction, but, c'mon. Talking rabbits are cool.
Isn't that everyone's favorite moment of Watership Down?
Probably. Though I have a real fondness for the whole digging-out-the-snare sequence, and the run from Efrafa to the boat.
Now I must go re-read Watership Down. Bigwig, Fiver, Hazel, Hyzenthlay... Maybe Plague Dogs too, because the ending satisfies my mushy heart, after it has given up all hope. Much like the emotional payoff in The Incredible Journey.
I remember having to sleep with the lights on after reading The Haunting of Hill House and how somehow the colors in the room looked all wrong and it was the most frightening thing ever.
I acquired the entire Anne of Green Gables series at the Curious Book Shoppe back in Michigan, and none of them had been published before 1936. I loved reading fragile, yellowing books much older than I because it made the story feel more like time travel. I've pretty much deleted Anne of Ingleside from my memory banks because the author was so clearly bored that my beloved vivacious Anne came across like a Valium-damaged housewife who couldn't finish a single thought.
I think one of my favorite book memories is coming across my roommate's copy of John Varley's Wizard. Standing in the living room, paused on my way to doing something else and getting so completely caught up in the story that I had to come up for air. Thinking, " oh wow" and "I have got to go get me a copy of this book ASAP because I can't steal this book and I can't wait for my turn at it."
When Eowyn kicked the Witch King's ass, how happy I would have been to know that characters like Xena and Buffy and Zoe would soon be routine.
Talking rabbits are cool.
Of course they are! Only crazyheads don't accept this as a Universal Truth.
(Which means I should probably re-read
Watership Down
soon-ish, because I haven't in about two decades.)
I haven't read it since my first time in ninth grade, and I want to read it again now.
I think I read that
Tales of Watership Down
thing years ago, but I don't remember. I at least held it.
Talking rabbits are cool.
Plus the animated film is a great way to traumatize kids (and probably a few adults as well).
Hi, here is a river of blood!
