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.)
Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Atropa - Jun 30, 2006 10:56:21 am PDT #950 of 28095
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2006 11:02:22 am PDT #951 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2006 11:07:48 am PDT #952 of 28095
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Talking rabbits are cool.
Plus the animated film is a great way to traumatize kids (and probably a few adults as well).
Katie M - Jun 30, 2006 11:13:37 am PDT #953 of 28095
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Oh, the movie is freaky.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2006 11:19:28 am PDT #954 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hi, here is a river of blood!
-t - Jun 30, 2006 11:23:06 am PDT #955 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I just remembered "The Yellow Wallpaper". Pretty creepy when I read it, much more so when I thought about it while sick and prone to hallucinations and delusions myself.
Shudder.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 30, 2006 11:26:30 am PDT #956 of 28095
What is even happening?
(Which means I should probably re-read Watership Down soon-ish, because I haven't in about two decades.)
WWCD?
Kathy A - Jun 30, 2006 11:30:45 am PDT #957 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yellow Wallpaper is definitely a mindblower.
All this talk about Watership Down makes me also want to reread it (I haven't read it since that 8th grade class). I was just looking at its Wikipedia entry, and saw three interesting cultural references, among others:
On The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert keeps a copy on a bookshelf labeled "non-fiction".
In Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, when Gromit turns on the van's radio in one scene, the song "Bright Eyes" from the Watership Down movie is heard.
In the Stephen King novel titled The Stand, one of the main characters, Stu Redman, has read Watership Down and uses the book's concept of "going tharn", or freezing in catatonic panic, to describe how another character makes him feel as Stu tries to escape the Vermont plague facility holding him captive. Later, Stu says that another character, Harold Lauder reminds him of Silver, or Silverweed.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2006 11:39:50 am PDT #958 of 28095
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And, of course, it's one of the books Sawyer is passing the time with on LOST.
Gris - Jun 30, 2006 11:43:53 am PDT #959 of 28095
Hey. New board.
I love that book. I reread it about a month ago, actually.