I love that book. I reread it about a month ago, actually.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
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."
Gris - Jun 30, 2006 11:43:53 am PDT #959 of 28095
Hey. New board.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2006 11:51:12 am PDT #960 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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
There was a TV series?
Jars - Jun 30, 2006 12:24:28 pm PDT #961 of 28095
I don't think I've ever read Watership Down. I remember actually refusing to a few times when I was younger because the movie freaked me out so much. I should probably try and give it a go now.
But... dead bunnies...
Atropa - Jun 30, 2006 12:31:18 pm PDT #962 of 28095
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But... dead bunnies...
Aaaaaand that's the reason I keep putting off re-reading it.
Kathy A - Jun 30, 2006 12:37:27 pm PDT #963 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
But I just love the idea of Clovis enlisting Bigwig in taking on the world...
Strega - Jun 30, 2006 1:27:57 pm PDT #964 of 28095
There was a TV series?That was news to me, too. But check it out: Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Dawn French, Rik Mayall...
And Kiefer Sutherland. Wacky.
Katie M - Jun 30, 2006 1:49:03 pm PDT #965 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
1) Kiefer Sutherland?
2) Who the hell is Hickory?
3) I am amused that they turned Blackberry into a girl. Because if one must have a Strong Female Character--and one must--at the very least choose the brainy one. Brainy people are girly anyway.
Jon B. - Jun 30, 2006 3:46:28 pm PDT #966 of 28095
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
And, of course, it's one of the books Sawyer is passing the time with on LOST.
It's also used in Donnie Darko (director's cut).
Connie Neil - Jun 30, 2006 4:17:42 pm PDT #967 of 28095
brillig
Another really cool book that gave me delicious chills is "A Night in the Lonesome October," by Roger Zelazny. Jack the Ripper's dog is the narrator. Jack is trying to save the world and has a very good reason for doing what he's doing. Sherlock Holmes is in there, and Lovecraft's world, and a plethora of horror movie stuff.
It's a wonderful book.
Kate P. - Jun 30, 2006 5:20:37 pm PDT #968 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
After reading some of today's conversation, I had a doubletake moment at the library today when a patron asked me to help him locate Watership Down. I wanted so badly to say, "Oh! I was just talking about that book today with the invisible people on the internet!" but I think I just kept it to "Oh, that's a really good book."