Borders

[jack]

Between poohsoc and douglas's party, I phoned lots of people and seized the opportunity to browse borders with nothing particular in mind. (Why is it called Borders? Is it a reference to Edge Witchery[1] or what?)

* There was another point, but I can't remember it.

* Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is rrrreaching into double figures. Does Robert Jordan have a rival?

* I read some of Princess Bride. I managed not to buy it then, but I think it's definitely worth getting.

* Dianna Wynne Jones and Narnia have made the move to the adult fantasy section. Narnia even comes with new arty black and white adult covers, which as always I rather like. The lion photo is as good as you could ever hope of conveying "so beautiful you want to hug it, even if you're disembowled for it."

* Has anyone read The Hickory Staff? It was on display and caught my eye.

* A group of sixth-form/first-year girls paraded through, one being dragged by her friends away from every book in the place.

[1] Gakked from TP or someone: the magic of edge effects and pushing boundaries.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply you were wrong, merely to...summarize it :) I only know because other people keep mentioning it: I've still seen no evidence :)

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Press report about the new Narnia film

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Eek. I possibly have some problems with the evangalism of Narnia, but (a) I thought it both more enjoyable and effective in its propaganda than Pullman and (b) Love seeemed important to me.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

To be honest, much as I enjoyed the narnia books.

Pullman has a point, they are full of prejudice...

The Calormen worshiping Tash (the devil) for example. Perhaps that's why the BBC didn't televise "The Horse & His Boy" or "The Last Battle"?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Yes. That was odd. Though OTOH, it was clear that someone who served Tash honestly, loyally and lovingly was as much a good heaven-bound guy as a Pevensie.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Only if you read all the way to the end of the series though...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

But wasn't the last battle the one really that portrayed Tash as so evil? In The Horse and his Boy the society was a bit decadent, but I didn't get the impression it was evil. Then again, it's been ages since I read them.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

To summarise my wrongness?
People keep mentioning I'm wrong?

And yet you can't see any evidence of me being wrong?

Maybe I really should hide in a cupboard...

[mair_in_grenderich]

Maybe I really should hide in a cupboard...

You can't hide. We will find you. And poke you with celery sticks until you admit that you are not wrong. Or are wrong. Whichever.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Always the worst sort of torturer, when no answer is the correct one...

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

In which case I'll just admit to never being wrong now, just to get that out the way...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That's how I *start*. It's a lot of work though.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"I suppose they might be aiming to feed into the adult nostalgia for these things," would be a good reason for making the films though. So you might not be be up on pop culture, but you weren't *wrong* :)