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GreenKnight: Those were great! They did what I think is the thing that good haikus do: capture a scene or a feeling in very few, very well-chosen words. :)
This one was great too! :D
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Thought I'd try this forum too :) (I've read some of the other posts and will write clever comments when I'm feeling clever.;) )
This is a song I wrote in January and February. It's not bitter at all :rolleyes: Comments welcome.
Waiting for the Sun of Spring
He's beaten black and blue...
The latest bad thing that ruined a day for me (and the days since, as I haven't solved it yet:mad: ): WinWord disappeared from my computer!! :eek: I screamed and swore and scared the poor cat :o but the whole programme was simply gone. No idea why or how. Now this would be more easily solved if...
I stand corrected, yay! :D ;)
Addendum: several mythological characters turn up in Jasper Fforde's books, and in the Sandman graphic novels (words by Neil Gaiman). And I keep on lookin'... :)
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I hope you've seen that The Penelopiad is part of an international publishing feast :) of writers from all around the world putting forth their versions of classical myths? Of the ones published so far I've found: "Weight" (Atlas) by Jeanette Winterson, "A short history of myth" (non-fiction)...
It's about a young, idealistic egyptologist who goes to Egypt in 1922 to find a king's grave from 1600 BC. All he has to go on are some erotic poems, supposedly written by this king. The book consists of his diary, but also of some letters (written in the 1950s) of a private investigator who was...
I am currently reading The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips. At first, I thought I'd compare it with books like Dracula and The Historian - historical suspense written in the form of letters and diaries. But this one has a twist...
Usually in this type of book the narrators are implicitly...
...tries to turn him back, but fails so that they end up with a rather miffed large hamster with armadillo armour. The conflicting outbursts of magic, however, have the unfortunate effect of...
Some apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books:
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. A very funny version of Armageddon; the heroes are an angel and a demon who know the end is coming but kind of wish it wouldn't.
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. Set in post-apocalyptic New York; the main...
...let the wombat wizard save Snuffles's soul into the body of an armadillo, whose strong hide will protect him. This gives the armadillo the unexpected power of...
What's so weird about reading in the bathtub? :rolleyes: It's the best place for it!!
(I suddenly heard every single one of the school of keep-the-books-looking pristine scream... ;) )
Also, I'll subscribe to the loving-the-smell-of-books faction :D
*mrkgnao*
Thanks for the replies! I'm hoping later in the book I'll get an explanation of how the gingerbread man became a serial killer :confused: :rolleyes:
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Time to confess: how much of a book nerd are you? What weird things do you do that make people look at you funny, even if they love books as much as you do – if you dare admit to them? ;)
With the risk of being the only one, I’ll go first: I catalogue my books when I’ve read them, in a...
Run and buy!
Thought I'd bump this thread as The Big Over Easy has just come out in paperback and I jumped on it right away. Only read about 35 pages yet, but already loving it! For instance: of course the proper, the only, way to spell 'unspeakable' is 'unspzfxkable'! :D
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OK, just off the top of my head (actually off of every side of my bookshelves :rolleyes: ), a list of great men in books:
The brooding mysterious ones: Sydney Carton in A tale of two cities, Shadow in American gods, Childermass in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and obviously Heathcliff (77...