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.
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
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."
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!
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.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2005 6:05:45 pm PST #6928 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If it helps, it made me giggle.
See? Funny!
Daisy Jane - Jan 24, 2005 7:17:23 pm PST #6929 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Poor guy. He's one of those who just doesn't know where his towel is.
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 24, 2005 10:32:08 pm PST #6930 of 10002
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
"Oh, it's not the Eighties anymore" -a History prof of mine when he found out that only about a quarter of the class had read HGTTG.
Volans - Jan 25, 2005 2:56:57 am PST #6931 of 10002
move out and draw fire
My sister called me last year, all excited to tell me about these books I *must* read. Turned out she meant HHGTG. I was like, "wow, Deb, if I'd thought you'd like it I'd have rec'd it to you 15 years ago." Who knew?
Kristin, Shakespeare After All is not super-dry. Her voice is academic, but not "I must publish" academic, more chatting-after-the-show academic. It helps that she only spends a few pages on each play so you can read it in small, digestible chunks. I've actually been reading it between 1:30 and 3:30 am, since I'm not sleeping anymore, and it doesn't put me to sleep even at that time.
Thing is, I keep wishing for Internet at home because I keep wanting to check some of her assertions: do "travel" and "travail" really have the same root? Do "merchant" and "merchandise" come from the same root as Mercury, the god of commerce?
Or maybe I just need a direct link to Erin's brain.