I haven't, dcp, but I just checked at Amazon and bought a couple used. They sound great! Sadly, I'm sure they will make me obscenely jealous, as Corfu! And the Greece of 2005 is not at all the Greece of 1999, let alone 1930.
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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."
Volans - Jul 10, 2005 7:08:19 am PDT #8098 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Polter-Cow - Jul 10, 2005 12:09:50 pm PDT #8099 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife.
Wow.
I loved it.
That is all.
dcp - Jul 10, 2005 6:25:19 pm PDT #8100 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
My Family and Other Animals is definitely the one to start with. The other two "Corfu" books are Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Garden of the Gods. Beasts in My Belfry is early post-war England, and then the first animal collecting expedition book is The Overloaded Ark.
The rest of the books can be read in pretty much any order, except that The Bafut Beagles should come before A Zoo In My Luggage, because the latter is about a return expedition to Bafut.
Ginger, I liked the biography a lot. It is very thorough without being tedious. It's amazing just how much stuff was going on in Durrell's life that didn't make it into his many books.
sumi - Jul 11, 2005 7:20:33 am PDT #8101 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
David that publisher is an idiot!!!
My HP is "shipping soon".
Nutty - Jul 11, 2005 7:29:19 am PDT #8102 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So that Kate P. knows she is not alone, I bought a copy of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners over the weekend. I fully anticipate its being really cool and mind-bendy.
It does not include the story "Monsters," of which I have heard the first half and not the second half. That is forthcoming in September, in a McSweeney's collection for young adults, edited by Daniel Handler. The title is something impenetrably long, so long that Kelly could only wave her hands vaguely and recall that there was a "and this other thing we don't have a name for" at the end of it.
Kate P. - Jul 11, 2005 7:42:04 am PDT #8103 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hey, cool, I'll have to track down that McSweeney's collection. She's also got a story in another YA anthology that isn't in either of her collections: "Swans" in A Wolf at the Door (see her website).
sumi - Jul 11, 2005 8:27:42 am PDT #8104 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Michelle Trachtenberg is playing the main character in the Lifetime Movie of The Dive from Clausen's Pier. . . Sean Maher is playing Kilroy and Will Estes is playing Mike.
MT is in no way old enough to play Carrie, right?
-t - Jul 11, 2005 2:38:21 pm PDT #8105 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does anyone have any recommendations for books to give an 11 year old boy who likes Pratchett?
ChiKat - Jul 11, 2005 2:43:58 pm PDT #8106 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
The Messenger by Lois Lowrey
The Golden Compass books (there are 3) by Philip Pullman
Katie M - Jul 11, 2005 2:49:17 pm PDT #8107 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Adams, obviously. Um. Funny fantasy stuff I was reading at that age... Asprin. Craig Shaw Gardner. I adored Tanith Lee's The Dragon's Hoard around that time, though I don't know that it has quite the same silliness vibe. (Haven't read it in years.)
That's all that appears off the top of my head.