I've never read Anne of Green Gables either.
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sj - Jun 15, 2010 4:44:06 pm PDT #22747 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Atropa - Jun 15, 2010 4:51:21 pm PDT #22748 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
askye, I'm very glad you're here.
I've never read Anne of Green Gables. Go on, look surprised.
P.M. Marc - Jun 15, 2010 4:54:35 pm PDT #22749 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I should, somewhere, have an old edition of Anne of Green Gables around. Nicked it from my Aunt's house years ago. Long before that time she gave me carte blanche to go through the old books up there.
I mean, I didn't mean to keep it. I'd borrowed it for the drive home. Just never got it back to her, and when she started letting me have at the books, figured, eh, what the hell?
Beverly - Jun 15, 2010 4:59:06 pm PDT #22750 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I've read it. I've read almost all of those books. The earlier ones were the best ones. Of course the tv series with Megan Follows was best, with Richard Farnsworth and Colleen Dewhurst as Matthew and Marilla. Or that could just be my deep love for Dewhurst and Farnsworth talking.
askye, I'm glad you failed. I'm glad you're here, and I'm glad I got to know you a little--wish there was the opportunity to know you better, since I like what I know, a lot.
Hil R. - Jun 15, 2010 5:07:56 pm PDT #22751 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've read it. I've read almost all of those books. The earlier ones were the best ones.
I love the first three. I thought Anne of Windy Poplars was kind of boring, and then Anne's House of Dreams just had way too many soap opera-ish subplots. (Like, really? Head trauma, amnesia, and identical cousins?) Then nothing much really happened in Anne of Ingleside, but I thought that Rainbow Valley was charming, and I really liked Rilla of Ingleside. (Except for the fact that Shirley seems to completely disappear, not only from the plot but from the characters' thoughts, which always bothered me.)
Dana - Jun 15, 2010 5:09:34 pm PDT #22752 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, I like the part of Anne of Windy Poplars where she has to fight against the Pringles.
JZ - Jun 15, 2010 5:11:00 pm PDT #22753 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
askye, I'm so glad you failed. That's the best and ultimately most joyful failure I've heard of. And I so hugely admire how much work you've put into rebuilding yourself, finding your way to a strong and loving life.
Sean K - Jun 15, 2010 5:12:00 pm PDT #22754 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Srsly????
I just turned into a driveway just a tad too soon, and now I have a flat front tire and probably a bent rim to boot.
Any moment now will come the poke in the eye and the kick in the junk.
sarameg - Jun 15, 2010 5:12:25 pm PDT #22755 of 30000
What JZ said.
Connie Neil - Jun 15, 2010 5:13:41 pm PDT #22756 of 30000
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Sean, at least the wheel didn't fall off. That's a surprise development when maneuvering in driveways, let me tell you. I actually caught myself saying "I disbelieve," as if there were a DM somewhere I could challenge.
And askye, happy multi-birthdays. You should give yourself two sets of presents and cake.