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May. 3rd, 2011 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- Yesterday, I checked in the audiobook of Titus Groan and immediately felt like I had to listen to it. So I am. I had forgotten how much I love Mr Flay. (I have only listened to chapter one and thus have re-encountered only Flay and Rotcod.) And also how much I love this book in general, with its ridiculous tragic characters and ponderous slowness and claustrophobic stone walls. The audiobook does have the worst cover blurb ever, though - no mention of Steerpike at all, seems to think that Cora and Clarice are Titus' sisters rather than Sepulchrave's, implies that Titus actually does things in the first book instead of just, y'know, being born and then dropped on his head a bit. Not that I can really imagine how one would write a cover blurb that would properly convey the content of the book. Gormenghast is terribly difficult to explain.
- A few weeks ago, I convinced a coworker that she should watch Buffy. It took a bit of doing, but she finally did and, of course, loved it. Now she's in the middle of season 3 and comes in every day to tell me about the episode she's watched. 8) However, man doth not live by Buffy alone and she's feeling like she needs a little bit of a break. So she's asked me for another show. This time, I am giving her Farscape - I kinda feel like it shares a certain kind of humor with Buffy, as well as a certain mixture of the absurd and the tragic. (And I can tell her not to watch I, ET and Jeremiah Crichton because seriously, there is no need to do so.) I can't wait to find out what she thinks.
- ...I was sure I had a third thing but now it has completely left me. Alas. Perhaps it will come back later.
- Yesterday, I checked in the audiobook of Titus Groan and immediately felt like I had to listen to it. So I am. I had forgotten how much I love Mr Flay. (I have only listened to chapter one and thus have re-encountered only Flay and Rotcod.) And also how much I love this book in general, with its ridiculous tragic characters and ponderous slowness and claustrophobic stone walls. The audiobook does have the worst cover blurb ever, though - no mention of Steerpike at all, seems to think that Cora and Clarice are Titus' sisters rather than Sepulchrave's, implies that Titus actually does things in the first book instead of just, y'know, being born and then dropped on his head a bit. Not that I can really imagine how one would write a cover blurb that would properly convey the content of the book. Gormenghast is terribly difficult to explain.
- A few weeks ago, I convinced a coworker that she should watch Buffy. It took a bit of doing, but she finally did and, of course, loved it. Now she's in the middle of season 3 and comes in every day to tell me about the episode she's watched. 8) However, man doth not live by Buffy alone and she's feeling like she needs a little bit of a break. So she's asked me for another show. This time, I am giving her Farscape - I kinda feel like it shares a certain kind of humor with Buffy, as well as a certain mixture of the absurd and the tragic. (And I can tell her not to watch I, ET and Jeremiah Crichton because seriously, there is no need to do so.) I can't wait to find out what she thinks.
- ...I was sure I had a third thing but now it has completely left me. Alas. Perhaps it will come back later.
