'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Yeah, Snicket is the narrator, and a character with his own mysterious involvement in the story. There's an Unauthorized Autobiography of Snicket as sort of an adjunct to the series.
Then again, this
Handler is eleven-thirteenths of the way through a planned 13-volume gothic marathonsuggests that either the piece is dated, or the author is confused. Book 12 came out last month.
Oooh! Have I read book 12?
I just read it this week -- The Penultimate Peril? They reach Hotel Denoument and there's, y'know, some regrettable occurences.
I admire people that can plan like that. Whenever I write anything I'm more like "Um...stuff happens?"
I forsee a library visit in my future.
Margaret Atwood commenting on Pinter's Nobel.
Sitting in her publisher's west London office, Atwood sounds neither dry, nor fierce, but given rather to delighted hoots of laughter that punctuate her carefully phrased answers. She purrs with pleasure at the honour for her collaborator, whose work she admiringly described as "prickly, bothersome, mordant and dour", and as "coming up on you sideways with an alarming glare". Now, she says: "I was particularly touched by the picture of him in the paper in which he looked childishly happy - innocently happy. Which is not a look you usually see coming from Mr Pinter. He looked genuinely surprised - 'How could this be happening?' It was quite lovely."
Huh. 42 holds on the new Lemony Snicket at the library.
I think a lunchtime trip to Borders might be in order.
Ian McHugh says that the problem with fantasy is that wizards are boring.
Personally, I got no beef with Mickey Mouse, and all other wizards I will have to take on a case-by-case basis.
On another tack, O ye romance readers, how many of you read Sir Walter Scott or Alexandre Dumas? And can you express why you do/don't?
The only Dumas I've read is Count of Monte Cristo. I cherish my unabridged copy that was stolen for my from my old high school's library. Edmund Dantes (the Count) gets tiresome, but the rest of the characters are fascinating.
edit: Oh, and I've read Ivanhoe. the unabridged was a whole lot more interesting than the abridged I got in school. The Ivanhoe characters were a tad more three-dimensional than the Monte Cristo characters.
I haven't read the other stories by either of them.