Raiders Of WaitingMan's Ark
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waitingmanVia Reynardo...
Everyone's got one. A book or a film or a cd or whatever that they're passionate about that they try to get other people into, often by loaning them their copy of it.
Or to put it another way, everyone has a book that they've given up on ever getting back from whoever has it now which they have therefore gone and bought another copy of. And which, all too often, this cycle has repeated itself with.
Okay, the premise is astoundingly badly written, but I'm sure you get the idea. So, books & CDs it's better to have loaned & lost than never to have loved at all ~
To Kill A MockingBird: Hands down, the greatest novel of the 20th century. Last year I loaned my 20 year-old copy to someone I'll never get it back from, so am currently on the lookout for a 2nd-hand copy of the same edition... I like the cover, don't judge me.
'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word' - Skyhooks: One of the great, under-rated Australian pop/rock albums of the early 70s, overshadowed by the 'Living In The 70s' album & its controversies but I think 'Ego...' is the better album. Recently replaced after going missing in a mass lending mission a few months back.
'Diary Of A Rock'n'Roll Star' - Ian Hunter: A fun little tour diary that is truly fly-on-the-wall-warts-and-all about being in an almost-famous British band touring the USA in 1972. Best chapter is the one where they break into Graceland. I'm on my third copy of this book, the first two having been farmed out to drummers, other guitarists... then lost, stolen or strayed.
It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be buying a new copy of The Usual Suspects on DVD soon, unless the Alpha-est of Males finds it & gives it back, some time this decade. That film is everything the 'Ocean's...' films want to be. Cool, smart, funny & a proper ensemble piece with no one trying to out-act anyone else.
The moral of this entry ~ Don't lend your favourite stuff to musicians or co-workers.
Everyone's got one. A book or a film or a cd or whatever that they're passionate about that they try to get other people into, often by loaning them their copy of it.
Or to put it another way, everyone has a book that they've given up on ever getting back from whoever has it now which they have therefore gone and bought another copy of. And which, all too often, this cycle has repeated itself with.
Okay, the premise is astoundingly badly written, but I'm sure you get the idea. So, books & CDs it's better to have loaned & lost than never to have loved at all ~
To Kill A MockingBird: Hands down, the greatest novel of the 20th century. Last year I loaned my 20 year-old copy to someone I'll never get it back from, so am currently on the lookout for a 2nd-hand copy of the same edition... I like the cover, don't judge me.
'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word' - Skyhooks: One of the great, under-rated Australian pop/rock albums of the early 70s, overshadowed by the 'Living In The 70s' album & its controversies but I think 'Ego...' is the better album. Recently replaced after going missing in a mass lending mission a few months back.
'Diary Of A Rock'n'Roll Star' - Ian Hunter: A fun little tour diary that is truly fly-on-the-wall-warts-and-all about being in an almost-famous British band touring the USA in 1972. Best chapter is the one where they break into Graceland. I'm on my third copy of this book, the first two having been farmed out to drummers, other guitarists... then lost, stolen or strayed.
It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be buying a new copy of The Usual Suspects on DVD soon, unless the Alpha-est of Males finds it & gives it back, some time this decade. That film is everything the 'Ocean's...' films want to be. Cool, smart, funny & a proper ensemble piece with no one trying to out-act anyone else.
The moral of this entry ~ Don't lend your favourite stuff to musicians or co-workers.
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Date: 2008-07-29 02:13 am (UTC)Grunts (1992) is a grand guignol parody of mass-market high fantasy novels—with orcs as heroes, murderous halflings and racist elves.
Which pretty well sums it up. The genesis of the story was Gentle stumbling across a definition from Pliny as "Orc: a Marine monster". And went insanely on from their. Famous for including the line uttered by one orc to another post-battle: "Pass me another Elf, this one has split".
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Date: 2008-07-29 02:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-29 10:43 am (UTC)Erm, hi. Mary Gentle mentions always make me babble. :p