I spent a fortnight in Tiverton 10 years ago. I walked a gloriously green river path every night and caressed the wood of a thousand year old church and stumbled across an unexpected, breath taking stone circle on Dartmoor. I'm with Mr. Baum.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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."
beekaytee - Jul 26, 2005 12:25:21 pm PDT #8559 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
dcp - Jul 26, 2005 12:51:43 pm PDT #8560 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I hadn't heard of Classic Reader before, but I've used Project Gutenberg. They have a pretty good L. Frank Baum selection too.
Looks like Classic Reader makes reading online easy and dowloading for reading offline awkward, and Project Gutenberg does just the reverse.
DavidS - Jul 26, 2005 12:59:11 pm PDT #8561 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm with Mr. Baum.
Sorry, my mislead. That's not Baum, but Trollope.
beekaytee - Jul 26, 2005 1:07:00 pm PDT #8562 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Blissfully misled.
The memories are still just as lovely.
DavidS - Jul 26, 2005 1:10:46 pm PDT #8563 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The memories are still just as lovely.
It sounds lovely, but when I hear "Torquay" my brain immediately leaps to Basil Fawlty.
beekaytee - Jul 26, 2005 1:14:39 pm PDT #8564 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Never saw anything remotely Fawlty during my stay there. Not even the old folks home where I volunteered.
Those places that didn't knock me over with grandeur, screamed quaint. And always the good kind. Never kwaint.
Gandalfe - Jul 26, 2005 1:30:35 pm PDT #8565 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I really thought Harry was going to be the death in this book.
Which would make the next book, what, Harry Potter and the Long Dirt Nap?
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2005 1:31:23 pm PDT #8566 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gandalfe, if you use the s spoiler shortcut, you don't have to worry about typing the right colour in.
Gandalfe - Jul 26, 2005 1:31:52 pm PDT #8567 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Ita: I caught that - almost immediately. But not quite.
beekaytee - Jul 26, 2005 1:32:19 pm PDT #8568 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
That was EXACTLY what crossed my mind.
Harry Potter sleeps with the merpeople.