Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I am with Susan in preferring the hairy hobbit movies to the booksI am Juliana and Susan in this. Tolkien bores the crap out of me. Love the concept; respect the innovation; can't stand the books. And yes, this comes from a girl who was OMGWTFBBQ obsessed with fantasy forever. Bad reader! No biscuit.
Also, that way we got live-action Legolas and Aragorn and Borimir and Farimir and Eomer and NOMNOMNOM.
Anyhow, for those having a bad day/week/month/time of it, here is a video: [link] Sound not required, as it is only a song playing about having a bad day.
Strangely, i find myself yearning for a cubicle-based job all of a sudden. hrm.
Oh, GC! That's good news! YAY!
juliana, what Lutheran college? One in MN? I only ask, because I was at Augsburg for a while.
ION, I appear to have contracted the Plague. Does anyone have Plague pills?
Does anyone have Plague pills?
No plague pills. New pain pills, though. Although, I'm selfish and won't share...
::sits with Susan, Juliana, and Kristin::
I still marvel at how many children's books I *didn't* read in favor of beloved books I reread again and again.
The theology discussion is fascinating, but my brain leaked out while I was baking today. I need to think about it some more.
vw, I know a lot of people who went to Augsburg (incl. my ex-husband), and I was a Gustie (the LEAST religious school in the MIAC).
GC, I forgot to say YAY for GF!!
The version that was being published in America when I first read it circa 1980 was TLTWATW, Prince Caspian, Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, Horse and His Boy, Magician's Nephew, Last Battle. Which I think is publication order.
Interesting choice! I know I read TLTWATW as a stand-alone, but then a while after that I got hold of the whole series, in a different edition (with lovely front cover illustrations! Lovely!) and that had TMN as book 1. I was aware even then (although I don't know how I'd come by the knowledge) that CSL had written TMN after TLTWATW - but I still really enjoyed TMN.
Poor Susan. I always felt bad for her, being punished for reaching puberty and developing an interest in lipstick and boys.
(Oh, God. And I had such the crush on James MacAvoy's Mr Tumnus, in the recent movie. God. Suddenly I was all over the notion of Lucy/Mr Tumnus like a rash. [Not Wee!Lucy, obviously. But, you know - she grows up. Even in that fist book, she grows up.])
I have to admit that I haven't finished LOTR -- I got 2/3 of the way through The Two Towers, left my copy at a friend's house, and waited too long to get another copy and jump back in. It feels richer and heavier and slower going to me than Lewis's books: very rewarding, but in a very different way, despite their both being fantasies by two writers who were contemporaries and close friends (in fact, a small part of the genesis of the Narnia books was Lewis feeling a gush of sloppy fanboy love for Tolkien's stately and magnificent worldbuilding -- which resulted in a slapdash everything-but-the-kitchen-sink world that Tolkien found skin-crawlingly amateurish and embarrassing).
Even as a kid, I loved reading the Narnia books in publication order, even though the timeline jumped around, because of the way the girl characters got deeper and stronger and more active as the author got older and wiser and less trapped in his men-only monkish academic world. The Silver Chair was always a little cool and silvery and bleak, but oh how I loved Jill Pole.