Archive for November, 2009

Ron Stole Meggie’s Heart Away and I Got Sidney’s Leg.

18, Nov 2009

Did I mention that I hate Arthur Dent?
I’m not sure if I have made that abundantly clear. I despise him so much that I wish my hatred of Arthur Dent could be fabricated into some sort of monument. If I only had such power. If only someone else in this great wide (or maybe tiny) [...]

Well, that was an extended vacation.

17, Nov 2009

Hiya, remember me?
So although I was a tad behind in the reading (and posting by a lot), I was gearing to catch up and write an epic post about my progress.
Then we went to Belgium.
Picture it: we (me, my husband, the boy, the girl, my mother-in-law and her 83-year old mother, both visiting from the [...]

The Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional and Five Tons of Glitter.

13, Nov 2009

“In an extraordinary gesture which it is pointless attempting to describe, Zaphod Beeblebrox slapped both his foreheads with two of his arms and one of his thighs with the other”.
That is just a terrific line and it tickles my brain to imagine Zaphod making that gesture. It seems both sublimely natural and insanely surreal at [...]

I’m Afraid that I’ve Been Left Here to Stop You

10, Nov 2009

The story so far:

Oh Yeah…

9, Nov 2009

During week four, while reading the first eleven chapters of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, I realized that it’s been much, much longer since the last time I went through it than I realized. Parts of the story are familiar to me, but there are large chunks that I forgot about. I [...]

The Meaning of Liff

3, Nov 2009

The question of the ultimate answer to life, the Universe and everything is the hallmark of the first book, I think, and it is such great fun to first discover the cleverness of the answer being 42. It was fun the first few times I read it, fun the first time I saw it portrayed [...]

Hey Earthman, You Hungry, Kid?

3, Nov 2009

Time went by in a blur. Faster than light.
One moment we were standing there, gazing at the ruin of not a particularly nice home perched upon its expanse of West Country farmland. The next, there was a Vogon reading poetry. Then, with a thump from Improbability Drive and the Heart of Gold, we were wrapped [...]

One Down, Four to Go

2, Nov 2009

I can’t believe how quickly this is going. I also can’t believe how much trouble I’m having keeping up with the reading. “This will be no sweat,” I thought, mere weeks ago. “Fifty pages per week, and from a series of books I already love and enjoy? Easy!”
My only explanation is that I had some [...]