Jealous of you Tep.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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."
Daisy Jane - Jan 24, 2005 1:15:31 pm PST #6918 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
erikaj - Jan 24, 2005 1:24:55 pm PST #6919 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has not read that here.
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2005 1:37:13 pm PST #6920 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Whoa, what is with you people?
Well, I didn't read it until senior year of high school. I'm not sure I'd even heard of it. But one of the faculty advisors for our lit mag thought "Polter-Cow" reminded him of it, so he thought I should read it before revising.
Hope you enjoy it, Teppy. Just remember that all the strange digressions aren't relevant...but some are.
erikaj - Jan 24, 2005 1:56:55 pm PST #6921 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
So many books, so little time?ETA: Or maybe I feared it wouldn't have sufficent body count for my taste.
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2005 2:00:04 pm PST #6922 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heh. And there are five. And then two Dirk Gently books! Which are also fun. You might like those more, as they're ostensibly mysteries.
erikaj - Jan 24, 2005 2:08:27 pm PST #6923 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
One of these days...probably should finish the draft of what I'm writing first, as I'm quite the mimic and whimsy + noir=NSM Don't feel too bad though...I had to put aside "Tales of The City" too, for the same thing. Can't have my cops bouncing around like Michael Tolliver. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2005 3:05:53 pm PST #6924 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm rereading Hitchhiker's, and I'm kinda envious of you, Steph. I'm spending my reading going "So, wait, is that gonna happen now? His pocket? Right, of course..."
I don't remember it near verbatim like I used to, but I haven't forgotten it all either.
The key, I think, to enjoying it is breathing. There are no true surprises, in that he's put groundwork for most everything that happens later.
It's all got a strange sort of sense.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2005 4:13:29 pm PST #6925 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I sometimes forget that those books aren't firmly ingrained in everyone's consciousness at birth. Like, DH lost our HGTTG towel (movie swag) this morning doing laundry, and didn't understand why I found that so funny.
Fred Pete - Jan 24, 2005 5:16:45 pm PST #6926 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Can't have my cops bouncing around like Michael Tolliver. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Um, the cop doesn't show up until the 4th book.
P.M. Marc - Jan 24, 2005 5:48:33 pm PST #6927 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Like, DH lost our HGTTG towel (movie swag) this morning doing laundry, and didn't understand why I found that so funny.
If it helps, it made me giggle.