Posts by Che Tibby
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Patricia Wrightson's Wirrin arc (which begins with The Nargun and the Stars, and makes prominent use of characters from Aboriginal mythology)?
!!!!!
you legend.
i have been trying to find the name of that series for years.
best tweenie books *ever*.
that said, i'll not read them again. i found a copy of the half-men of o in a bookstore and reread it, only to be extremely disappointed at its simplicity.
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i had the sneaking suspicion it was only a flashy layer of coins around a hollow centre.
in other words, a bit like an actual rich person.
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I really need to win Lotto and stop working so I can concentrate on something worthy
1. walk into your living room.
2. pick up the TV.
3. uplug it and carry it out the door to the garden.
4. hit it will a shovel until it is broken.
5. return indoors, put feet up, and read harry potter. (it is after all an entry-level drug).
6. yell, yippee-ki-ay motherfcuker, for effect.
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<che apologies for trollish behaviour, but does not back away from seeking acknowledgement that austen's priggish characters are, at best, foofy>
a shiriken death to d'arcy.
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Philistines.
LOL. (i knew that would draw you out)
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Personally I'd go down to my room of gold coins, and frolick like Scrooge McDuck.
at the casino in melbourne they had a perspex cylinder full of one million $1 coins.
jesus that mtherfkcer was big. maybe 3m high and 1.5 across?
couldn't key have like 50 of those tubes? because just one of those cylinders tipped out in my bedroom would drown my futon, and maybe my chest of drawers.
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Die hard - Pride and Extreme Prejudice
says blaxploitation to me.
mind you, pam in one of those empire line dresses would be... quite a sight.
they'd need to drop the hem a lot to hide the platform shoes but.
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i'll freely admit to wanting to get back into gravity's rainbow. once i "got" the crying of lot 49 it all kind of fell into place. maybe over christmas when i can just sit and absorb.
and i'm feeling a guilty need to defend my foofy tosh assertion about austen.
there's only one thing that could rescue austen novels.
ninjas. or maybe a mafia shoot-out. or maybe the ghost of both.
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here's a question... how many of the critics on this list have actually written a novel?
only wondering because, well, i'm not very good at it myself, despite numerous attempts.
(to be honest, the only thing i've ever written that interested anyone was a little blog, now slowly moldering into obscurity).
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Anything by Jane Austen.
right on.
the films are worse. a bunch of foofy tosh.