Good thoughts to you and yours, Fred.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 25, 2010 10:14:52 am PDT #1811 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
erikaj - Oct 25, 2010 10:38:31 am PDT #1812 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm the wrong kind of geek for LOTR. Sports, too, really.(sorry Keith! But I try to pay attention for you.I could probably fool superficial fans at this point, cause I *do* know if some famous sports guy fucked up his thumb/asked for more bank/etc.) So, in BizzarroWorld, I could totally go Cosmo!Girl and pick up the one sporty guy looking for play that's not on the screen in a sports bar. At least, till he got off the guys I know and I'm all "No problem...USA...I don't understand." I'm way not hot enough for that. I AM the kind of geek that can identify fifty members of Congress and the ones that really put the *member* part in play most vividly.
Theodosia - Oct 25, 2010 10:41:26 am PDT #1813 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
There was a time when I reread The Trilogy (for, lo, there is only one true trilogy for me) every year, but I find it's better to wait a couple years between readings, because a couple of years of life experiences change it in subtle ways.
Tolkien has a very differently tuned "ear" for language that puts a fair number of readers off. It's consistent, it actually reads aloud very well (if you pronounce everything with the proper received British accent) and owes more to Chaucer and Beowulf than to Shakespeare and King James. It's not clumsy prose.
lisah - Oct 25, 2010 10:43:00 am PDT #1814 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
It's not clumsy prose.
I'd disagree (at least w/r/t the Hobbit) but, you know, different people like different things!
Gudanov - Oct 25, 2010 10:43:26 am PDT #1815 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I like the LOTR books, but they do have an antiquated feel, and they aren't something I see myself just sitting down and reading again. I've listened to audiobook versions while commuting and I think they are more enjoyable in that format.
megan walker - Oct 25, 2010 10:45:21 am PDT #1816 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
To me, The Hobbit and LOTR are very different levels/styles of writing.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2010 10:46:10 am PDT #1817 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love the LotR and Hobbit prose in different ways. It can be a bit much, though.
Maybe Buffistas need this dating site.
Theodosia - Oct 25, 2010 10:46:12 am PDT #1818 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Pshaw! (I'm still not sure how that's pronounced, btw.) If you want clumsy prose, go see H.P. Lovecraft and give him my regards....
flea - Oct 25, 2010 10:53:04 am PDT #1819 of 30001
information libertarian
Speaking of clumsy prose, I am reading Twilight for the student book club, and it is KILLING ME. Seriously, I have to read a chapter quick and then take a break because it is sooooo lame and boring and I hate the completely unrealistic people and first-person narration by boring teenage girls is like my least favorite thing ever.
Kathy A - Oct 25, 2010 10:58:04 am PDT #1820 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I liked Tolkien well enough the first time I read The Hobbit and LotR, but after I took a college course on medieval Brit lit, I loved him.