t marks Plei down as a member of the target market for the book I'ma write when I finish the wip
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'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."
Susan W. - Mar 03, 2005 7:09:53 pm PST #7143 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Atropa - Mar 03, 2005 7:19:55 pm PST #7144 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My favorite Discworld characters: Granny Weatherwax, Tiffany Aching, Agnes, Susan, Vimes.
Volans - Mar 03, 2005 9:23:18 pm PST #7145 of 10002
move out and draw fire
When my husband and I were first not-dating, he mentioned that The Black Arrow was his favorite childhood book. I was smitten. (Of course, he then listed about 17 other books that were also his favorite, which helped too).
But yeah, on re-read you do have to squint at The Black Arrow a bit.
In other news, I finally made it all the way through Rebecca. Every other run I've taken at it, I've wanted to choke the POV character to death early on...this time I just let the author write her characters and enjoyed it more. Not a lot, but more.
Anne W. - Mar 04, 2005 3:10:27 am PST #7146 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Love Discworld. I think my favorites are Vimes, Vetinari, Nanny Ogg (who is scarily like my Nana), Granny Weatherwax, and Susan. That said, I love almost all of the characters, with the possible exception of Rincewind. He annoys me, but since he's generally accompanied by The Luggage, I'm willing to tolerate him.
Calli - Mar 04, 2005 4:23:37 am PST #7147 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I adore Discworld. Vetinari is one of my book-guy crushes, (along with Lord Peter Wimsey and Vlad Taltos). I especially like thge Vetinari-Vimes interaction.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2005 4:24:53 am PST #7148 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, god, Vlad. One of my biggest literary crushes too.
Connie Neil - Mar 04, 2005 4:57:25 am PST #7149 of 10002
brillig
Vimes. Vimes is Da Man. And the Vimes-Vetinari Show is almost enough to make me write fic, except Sir Samuel would Not Be Pleased. They understand each other so well, except when Vimes is feeling left behind by some sudden left turn of Vetinari's mind.
After Vimes and Vetinari, it's Death, Susan, Agnes, Lady Sybil, Nobby, the Dean of the University--he wanted to ride the motorcycle in "Soul Music" and it was wonderful--Ridcully, Greebo ... Granny Weatherwax I respect, but I suspect she doesn't care if I like her. Nanny makes me want to kick her, the way she manipulates her family.
Monstrous Regiment flew by, for example.
I didn't much like "Monstrous Regiment". I got tired of "Oh, you're a girl, too?" If Vimes hadn't been in the book--though I'm not sure we got an adequate explanation for him being there, other than Vetinari knows if he wants something to work out right, then Vimes better be involved--I wouldn't have finished it. Plus Vimes as diplomat seems un-Vimesian, unless he can twist it to a form of policing, like in "Fifth Elephant," wherein I also learned to love Lady Sybil.
My favorite Pratchett is "Jingo." Vetinari getting to play, a quirky plot, Vimes being, well, Vimes.
Carrot bothers me. We never see inside his head, he's always portrayed as he appears to others. He does know more than one would think, but he's got weird prejudices and you don't know what he's thinking.
Connie Neil - Mar 04, 2005 4:58:18 am PST #7150 of 10002
brillig
For something completely different, has anyone else read "Focault's Pendulum"? I'm just starting it and thinking I need to buy everything Umberto Eco's ever written. Fortunately I already have "Name of the Rose."
billytea - Mar 04, 2005 5:22:57 am PST #7151 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
For something completely different, has anyone else read "Focault's Pendulum"? I'm just starting it and thinking I need to buy everything Umberto Eco's ever written. Fortunately I already have "Name of the Rose."
I have read it, and adored it. The middle was at times a tough slog, but IMO it was worth it.
Vonnie K - Mar 04, 2005 5:32:56 am PST #7152 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
has anyone else read "Focault's Pendulum"
Yeap--wow, it's been more than 10 years. Maybe it's time for a re-read. Brilliant book, dizzying stuff. I agree a bulk of the middle is rather difficult to go through, and sometimes I just wanted to shake the book and yell, "y'all are batshit crazy!!", but at the end, it made me happy and sort of exhauted, like I got off a fun, weird-ass rollercoaster ride.