morning... a couple of things

[cimorene]

randwise_gamgee posts on yellow ribbons.  (he didn't draw it.  it's "stolen from the internet.")

sparkly_girls continues to bring the britnay trainwreck with a chihuahua in a pink mink coat, plus some bad punctuation.

i finished the dark is rising last night, and it was really, really bad, but ever so cute and funny and fun.  i think they should make a semi-parody movie of this series and in that quiz bowl scene in the mountain in the grey king merriman should whip out two little desks with buzzers for them. 

my favourite part:  "Some small powers the Old Ones and the people of the Dark have in common, and one of them is this catching a man out of Time, for as long as is necessary.  Or in the case of the Dark, for as long as they find it amusing."  and here i thought they had some deep and, well, dark purpose that was outside our mortal ken for taking over the earth.  actually, they're just sociopaths who find suffering amusing!  (70 in 86 US Simon & Schuster ed.)

also, "...in his [the Rider]'s face incredulity and rage were mingled with a kind of evil respect."  ahahahahah.  which, as wax pointed out, is a lot more hardcore and meaningful than good respect.  (213)

Comments

[jennaria.livejournal.com]

The poetry. I still love the poetry in TDIR, by which I mean it sticks in my head and resonates properly.

For the rest...well, I actually wrote a paper on the series for a college class (Arthurian Legends, maybe) about how Good wins waaaaay too easily. No suspense.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it really really does. the dark isn't all that frightening from the very beginning. but when you consider that it's aimed at the same age group finding nemo is aimed at... wait, it actually has somewhat less suspense than finding nemo. ;p

but man, yeah, the poetry is beautiful, isn't it? i think a lot of it is quoted, but the one that's a prophecy she must have written herself.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

but to add--that when i was about ten and eleven my favourite stuff to read were fantasy adventures where you knew from the beginning that through your protagonist's competence etc the dark was going to be vanquished. i didn't like being in suspense. 's why i loved mercedes lackey, particularly vows and honor. or at least a large part of why.

[pickledixy.livejournal.com]

Rawr!

<3<3

[cimness.livejournal.com]

am i talking to randy or... cock? is that you?

[pickledixy.livejournal.com]

It's me.

Cock is asleep.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

♥

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