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The Meme of Books what's been going around.
Hardback or Paperback? Hardback, discounted or used.
Highlight or Underline? Post-It.
Lewis or Tolkien? Both, along with Charles Williams.
E.B. White or A.A. Milne? A.A. Milne
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? Frank Jacobs.
Stephen King or Dean Koontz? H.P. Lovecraft, you plebe.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? Amazon
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Amazon
Fantasy or Science Fiction? Both
Horror or Suspense? Either
Bookmark or Dogear? Bookmark
Hemingway or Faulkner? Oh, just put a bullet in my head right now, why don't you?
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Upton Sinclair.
Homer or Plato? Both
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Chaucer
Pen or Pencil? Both
Looseleaf or Notepad? Graph paper
Alphabetize: By Author or By Title? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Riiiiiight.
Dustjacket: On or Off? On.
Novella or Epic? Either. Bring it awn.
John Grisham or Scott Turow? Fuck that shit, man.
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? Both
John Irving or John Updike? I hate Irving. I haven't read Updike.
Fiction or Non-fiction? Both. Neither.
Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Define your terms, you damn hippie!
A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? Whatever I can get through.
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Quality writin'. I don't care about genre.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? A screaming comes across the sky. In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. It was love at first sight. Alice was eating grapes in the park when Herbert, an extremely well-endowed young man, introduced himself to her.
Buy or Borrow? Hunt down copies at ridiculously low prices.
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Both and neither.
Highlight or Underline? Post-It.
Lewis or Tolkien? Both, along with Charles Williams.
E.B. White or A.A. Milne? A.A. Milne
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? Frank Jacobs.
Stephen King or Dean Koontz? H.P. Lovecraft, you plebe.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? Amazon
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Amazon
Fantasy or Science Fiction? Both
Horror or Suspense? Either
Bookmark or Dogear? Bookmark
Hemingway or Faulkner? Oh, just put a bullet in my head right now, why don't you?
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Upton Sinclair.
Homer or Plato? Both
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Chaucer
Pen or Pencil? Both
Looseleaf or Notepad? Graph paper
Alphabetize: By Author or By Title? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Riiiiiight.
Dustjacket: On or Off? On.
Novella or Epic? Either. Bring it awn.
John Grisham or Scott Turow? Fuck that shit, man.
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? Both
John Irving or John Updike? I hate Irving. I haven't read Updike.
Fiction or Non-fiction? Both. Neither.
Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Define your terms, you damn hippie!
A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? Whatever I can get through.
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Quality writin'. I don't care about genre.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? A screaming comes across the sky. In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. It was love at first sight. Alice was eating grapes in the park when Herbert, an extremely well-endowed young man, introduced himself to her.
Buy or Borrow? Hunt down copies at ridiculously low prices.
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Both and neither.
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I knew you were brilliant; I didn't know you were *that* brilliant.
*bows*
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And then the Evil Mirror Universe Charles Williams (and the other Inklings) turned up in a Doctor Who novel a year or two back, Mad Dogs and Englishmen. He encourages Tolkien to finish his grand fantasy epic about dogs. The cover is neon pink and has a white Standard Poodle holding a revolver.
Books like this are the reason I find it hard to appreciate Stargate and Smallville.
Winter's coming, so I hope to get some more Williams under my Hanes Her Way.
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*hearts standard poodles*
I have a hard time with Williams' prose, but I really liked his poems on Taliessin and King Arthur and the Grail. I also occasionally take a crack at his theological writing. I should try his novels again--I may have matured enough to really appreciate them.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0563538457/qid=1098278549/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-7489140-3508105?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
He...he wrote poetry?
Hm...
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Williams' poetry seems to be still in print (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802815782/qid=1098295037/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-8314178-6352839?v=glance&s=books), though a used bookstore is probably as good a bet as Amazon. It's all about Taliessin (also spelled "Taliesin"), King Arthur's court poet, and the unity of pagan wisdom with Christianity, and the Grail, and stuff. Deep, but also rathre shiny.
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