Also snagged Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, which I haven't read.
I love this book. Have you read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency yet?
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
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."
Hil R. - Jun 17, 2004 3:12:51 pm PDT #3480 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2004 3:15:18 pm PDT #3481 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Have you read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency yet?
I read it long ago and it confused the crap out of me. I snagged it at Half-Price down in Houston on my Rice trip, and I'm going to read it again before I hit Tea-Time. Whenever that is. My reading queue is a big mess.
Pix - Jun 17, 2004 3:17:06 pm PDT #3482 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Oh yay! I love Dirk Gently and Teatime. There's one passage in one of those books (Teatime or Gently, I can't remember) that describes some large object (a couch? a piano?) being stuck in the hallway stairs, and I swear it breaks me every single time I read it. It's not a major plot point, nothing all that important, and yet his description of it is one of my all-time favorite comic passages.
I get giddy with laughter with those books.
Hil R. - Jun 17, 2004 3:18:00 pm PDT #3483 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oh, and based on the conversation here, I got Watership Down at the library today. I'm a few chapters in now, and loving it. Why did no one tell me about this book when I was 11?
Hil R. - Jun 17, 2004 3:19:12 pm PDT #3484 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
There's one passage in one of those books (Teatime or Gently, I can't remember) that describes some large object (a couch? a piano?) being stuck in the hallway stairs, and I swear it breaks me every single time I read it. It's not a major plot point, nothing all that important, and yet his description of it is one of my all-time favorite comic passages.
It's a couch. One of my teachers at CTY read that to us the summer I was taking geometry, and that's what got me hooked on those books.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2004 3:21:22 pm PDT #3485 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I get giddy with laughter with those books.
Have you read The Salmon of Doubt, which contains the first couple chapters of the next, never-to-be-fucking-finished Dirk Gently novel? It was good stuff, dammit.
Oh, and based on the conversation here, I got Watership Down at the library today. I'm a few chapters in now, and loving it. Why did no one tell me about this book when I was 11?
Yay! Better late than never. Join the rabbit cult! And actually, I had the opportunity to snag Tales from Watership Down, but I've heard it's disappointing.
Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2004 3:26:34 pm PDT #3486 of 10002
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Why did no one tell me about this book when I was 11?
It was a conspiracy. Me, I wouldn't have made head nor tail of it at 11, because I was a clueless lump at that time. High school junior, though, it worked. I'm almost afraid to read it again, because I know which sections are just lurking around waiting to make my grown-up mind hurt.
Though Bigwig's Last Stand is worth a re-visit.
Consuela - Jun 17, 2004 3:31:02 pm PDT #3487 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My elementary school teacher caught me reading WD and recommended LeGuin to me. I've never looked back.
Hazel-rah! I love the Prince With a Thousand Enemies.
And did you know there's a political blog out there called Silflay Hraka? Heee!
Pix - Jun 17, 2004 3:42:01 pm PDT #3488 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Yes, but those of use whose parents got the WD animated movie thinking it was a gentle kids' comedy and left it for us to watch alone at the tender age of seven have never gotten over the trauma to actually read the book.
Obviously I need to. It's just...bloody rabbits. Seven. It left a mark.
Jessica - Jun 17, 2004 4:42:17 pm PDT #3489 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yes, but those of use whose parents got the WD animated movie thinking it was a gentle kids' comedy and left it for us to watch alone at the tender age of seven have never gotten over the trauma to actually read the book.
Oh, but it's such a wonderfully done movie. Such a perfect adaptation. And theme song by Art Garfunkel!
DH is with you, though, Kristin -- the sky full of blood traumautized him as a small child (I don't think he's ever seen it past that scene).
Re Dirk Gently, I used the quote "There is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact,' he said, brandishing the abused book, 'everything between 'herring' and 'marmelade' appears to be missing," for my senior page in my high school yearbook.