I just finished reading Lemony Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography, and I find myself more and more annoyed, (which here means sick and tired of all the useless hints and and frustrating clues and pointless digressions but unable to stop reading the damn books despite all that), but the movie trailer did look kind of cool.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Wolfram - Jun 07, 2004 2:23:52 pm PDT #3149 of 10002
Visilurking
Betsy HP - Jun 07, 2004 2:42:24 pm PDT #3150 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
But WOLP takes place almost entirely within the BookWorld, and it seems like it's just one wacky idea after another without much attempt to put them together coherently .
Huh. That would have been my description of the first.
Volans - Jun 07, 2004 2:47:53 pm PDT #3151 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I have no idea why I don't like the Snicket books. They seem custom-designed for me, but I just can't read them. It's like trying to read the journal ramblings of a mental patient.
Also, I took another run at HP:OotP last night and today, and am very much hoping that the long delay for Book 6 has been caused by a team of highly-trained elite editors, who parachuted into the manuscript and began laying about with weed-whackers.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2004 3:08:29 pm PDT #3152 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It would be really nice, if in the next HP book, SOMETHING HAPPENED. In the last one, a year passed. That's about the long and short of it.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:09:39 pm PDT #3153 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
In the last one, a year passed. That's about the long and short of it.
You know, ita, I was wondering about that. We were discussing Book 4, and then I tried to think of what actually happened in Book 5, and I couldn't think of much.
Aims - Jun 07, 2004 3:10:19 pm PDT #3154 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hey now, there was some surly and pissiness in there.
And Fred and George started their shop.
And then some surly and pissiness.
And then, the end.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:11:13 pm PDT #3155 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hey now, there was some surly and pissiness in there.
Oooh yeah. That was the "I want to punch Harry" book.
erikaj - Jun 07, 2004 3:11:42 pm PDT #3156 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
You know, that's true, ita. I just thought it was me. And I read them all in a big chunk...so it sort of seemed like stuff happened. But in retrospect, nsm.
Jessica - Jun 07, 2004 3:12:10 pm PDT #3157 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And Sirius dying, after being turned into a complete asshead who we weren't at all sorry to see go.
But mostly there was TEEN! ANGST!
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:13:32 pm PDT #3158 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica: Yeah. Christ, he was one of my favorite characters, until that book.