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Kalshane - Mar 11, 2018 5:18:14 pm PDT #1480 of 3463

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I need to go see Wrinkle so I can form my own opinion but I also need to do about a billion other things so I don't know when I'll fit that in. Did recently reread in preparation, and realized I had never read the rest of the series like for some reason I thought I had, so I read those too. So really should see the movie soon.

I've been reading the series to my son, and I was in a similar boat. I thought I had read the whole series when I was younger, but apparently I never made it past A Wind in the Door.

Reading them now, (we're on Many Waters) I'm of the firm opinion A Wrinkle in Time was the best in the series.

I imagine I should go see the movie at some point, but I haven't even had time to see Black Panther yet.

Dana - Mar 11, 2018 5:37:35 pm PDT #1481 of 3463

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't think I ever reread Many Waters, because I found it super-weird. I loved the first three.

-t - Mar 11, 2018 5:45:40 pm PDT #1482 of 3463

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I wasn't into Many Waters when I started it, but by the end I really liked it. I think I'm bailing out of An Acceptable Time, though.

Zenkitty - Mar 11, 2018 6:52:56 pm PDT #1483 of 3463

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I only ever read A Wrinkle in Time. I didn't know the others existed. I loved it and it meant a lot to me as a kid, but I've not read it in decades and don't remember many details. I expect to be able to separate the movie from the book easily.

Steph L. - Mar 11, 2018 6:59:32 pm PDT #1484 of 3463

I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think I'm bailing out of An Acceptable Time, though.

I super love the books about Polly, though I can't quite articulate why. (Although Zachary needs to die in all the fires.)

(As always, though, in every single fiction book, the dialogue is just weird. No one actually talks like the characters in Madeleine L'Engle's books do.)

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 11, 2018 7:50:47 pm PDT #1485 of 3463

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

A Wrinkle in Time was definitely the crown jewel, and I don't think that's just my tendency to like the first book/episode/movie I see of serial entertainment talking. I thought A Wind in the Door was a good read as well, but definitely found the returns to be diminishing by A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

Are the less science-fictiony related YA novels like A Ring of Endless Light any good?

-t - Mar 11, 2018 9:23:32 pm PDT #1486 of 3463

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I did not care for A Swiftly Tilting Planet at all, which was very disappointing to me as it's a great title and has an inviting cover.

Part of why I haven't gotten into An Acceptable Time is that there's clearly a bunch of Polly backstory I haven't read but getting into all that seems like Too Much. And I can't stand Zachary.

Steph L. - Mar 12, 2018 4:52:28 am PDT #1487 of 3463

I look more rad than Lutheranism

And I can't stand Zachary.

He is the ACTUAL WORST.

Jessica - Mar 12, 2018 5:07:48 am PDT #1488 of 3463

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I love Swiftly Tilting Planet. I don't know where my copy is though.

Una - Mar 12, 2018 8:39:26 am PDT #1489 of 3463

when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

All I remember is that I read A Swiftly Tilting Planet first, because I didn't know any better, and OH BOY was I confused.

Maybe I should reread, but I also don't want to be annoyed about book vs. movie so...maybe later?

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