Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
If it helps, it made me giggle.
See? Funny!
Poor guy. He's one of those who just doesn't know where his towel is.
"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.
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.
Fred, I forgot there is a cop, yes. And a rodeo. My bad.
I got a one-volume HHGTtG a few years ago, but have yet to reread it. It'll be a nice surprise when I do, since about all I still remember is the bits about flying, and the restaurant with the cows who want to be eaten.