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As I work in a bookstore and am responsible for stocking fiction, usually I have time to find out a lot about a book (reviews online & on paper, e.g.) (Amazon Listmania!!!!) before grabbing it obsessively and carrying it home whispering "my own, my precious" :rolleyes: (Also: free copies from...

Remember, this is a spoiler-full thread On the last day of the month with a turtle on the wall calendar (say true!) I finished The Dark Tower. I loved the ending. Or rather, I loved Roland's ending, less thrilled about Susannah's. (I had thought that maybe E, S, J and O would end up meeting...

Swedes have a thing about wolves In Gosta Berling's saga by Selma Lagerlöf, two people in a sled are chased by a pack of wolves over a frozen lake, and save themselves by throwing a leather belt to the pack. Not sure that would help, but I think the chase could have realistically happened in...

Wow, that's him, on the nose! Or... on the... :rolleyes: :D

I wonder daily...:confused: :( On the other hand, I think it's not unlikely I will have an answer before too long, and the answer will be: The boob ran the business to a smoking wreck, so long and thanks for all the fish. :p

As to that, as to that... In the case of Those magnificent men... I do believe the meter has ticked over the triple nines and started over. :rolleyes:

Bump! I wish I could vote twice... he is doubly, triply, actually quadruply incompetent, at least, after all... :o *mrkgnao* *mrkgnnnngrrr...*

and resembling albatrosses' beaks

Which movies could you watch (have you watched?) a thousand times? :rolleyes: :eek: ;) :cool: Mine are: Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon Cry-Baby Smiles of a summer night Those magnificent men in their flying machines Blazing saddles The Rocky Horror picture show The...

I saw Singin' the other night (for like the 100th time, so I don't know why I didn't realise it before), and there it was, in black and white. Erm, brown and bluegreen... :rolleyes: A rose is a rose, and a colour match is a colour match ;)

I haven't seen this for over 15-20 years, I think, and I still remember this bit: "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle, to take back the child that you have stolen. My will is as strong as yours, my kingdom as great... You have no power over...

NOW I know where the new colour scheme came from!!! It's Gene Kelly's and Donald O'Connor's shirts in the Moses-supposes number in Singin' in the rain!!! :D :D ;) *mrkgnao*

I liked this too. Enigmatic, as mentioned; and not simple nor straight-forward but rather possible to read in many different ways and on many layers (as Poppy shows ;) ) - all of which are good things, IMO. (My literary association was Poe's A Dream Within A Dream) *mrkgnao*

OK, so it's a top ten... But they've been piling up during my quest for the Dark Tower - which still has a long way to go... but after that: Annie Proulx: Close range – Brokeback Mountain and other stories Jim Butcher: Dead beat Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Captain Alatriste Nelson Algren: A walk...

Aha... I liked the Abarat books, but agree more or less with your comment on them, so now I'm very curious about Thief of Always... :) *mrkgnao*

I read Mythago Wood ages ago, and I don't remember much except them wandering around in a forest that was more or less all forests in all English myths and stories ever, and (thus) my really liking it! :D It's on my reread list, and it sounds as though I'll need to put Lavondyss on the TBR...

I've found Robert Browning's Childe Roland, and the fairy tale of Child Rowland and Burd Ellen, but apparently there's also a Scottish ballad about the latter. Do any of ya ken it? *mrkgnao*

Oh yeah. *prrrrhrrrhrr* *mrkgnao*

Felicitations!

Why did the dead baby cross the road, that is. :p All things serve the beam. *mrkgnao*