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.
I want to go back and re-read WD & I've just realized that I can't because my younger brother stole my copy, damn him.
The Richard Adams novel that scarred me as a child was
Plague Dogs.
It's possible that it wouldn't be as terrifying now, but I wouldn't know since I'll never be able to make myself read it again.
Yeah, reading Watership Down in fifth grade and then launching off on the rest of his oevure was... um. Interesting. I was not really ready for some of the sex in Maia at that age, as it turns out.
Yeah, reading Watership Down in fifth grade and then launching off on the rest of his oevure was... um. Interesting
Glad I wasn't the only one. Shardik was fairly impenetrable as well.
Branagh's
Much Ado
was great- except for Keanu. "Like, dude, I'm full on evil, and I'm gonna totally pull some non-non-heinous prank on these totally lame-ass people..." Shudder. I feel sorry for people who saw him in
Hamlet
in Winnipeg a few years ago. Or, actually I don't... they didn't have to be there, there were plenty of willing teenage girls who would've bought the tickets.
I remember being really into Christopher Pike in Jr. High, so it's cool that his stuff's still around. I think I still have most of his books packed away. My faves include
Master of Murder
, the
Final Friends
trilogy, and
The Weekend.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll try and dig those up and give them another read.
Have you read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency yet?
Heh, I use Dirk's technique of zen navigation all the time. In fact, I had to last night coming home from Somerville. It got me where i needed to go.
Heh, I use Dirk's technique of zen navigation all the time.
I, too, occasionally just follow people who look like they know where they're going.
I, too, occasionally just follow people who look like they know where they're going.
That's how I navigated to an office Winter Holiday party in 2002. It worked, too.
The Richard Adams novel that scarred me as a child was Plague Dogs. It's possible that it wouldn't be as terrifying now, but I wouldn't know since I'll never be able to make myself read it again.
Yeah, I too read WD at age 11, loved it, and tried to read the Plague Dogs, but it was too upseting to finish. I can't deal with animal testing.
The best part about Bigwig's last stand is when he tells the other rabbits that he made a promise to his head rabbit to guard that passage and they get all freaked out because they can't imagine the rabbit who has to be tougher than him. Oh, also the part where he's calculating that even his dead body will be enough of an impediment to them. Bigwig was one tough fucking rabbit.
