What swanky things are you reading?

blueerica · 04-21-2005, 03:28 PM

I am reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams & re-reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.

lindyhop · 04-21-2005, 09:07 PM

I just got The Annotated Brothers Grimm and I've been swept back to my childhood.

When I was a kid we had a series of books, one volume was all fairy tales. I read that book over and over and over. I still remember that "Cinderella" was on page 123, that seemed magical somehow. The illustrations were all different styles and I believed them all, I mean somewhere the world looked just like that, not like the boring place I lived.

I opened up this new book last night and found some of the same illustrations and discovered the reason they were so compelling was that they were taken from classic editions of fairy tales. I feel like I've discovered something that's been lost for a long time.

04-21-2005, 03:28 PM	#1
blueerica Nueve Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,497	I am reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams & re-reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.
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04-21-2005, 09:07 PM	#2
lindyhop Swing Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Long Beach Posts: 997	I just got The Annotated Brothers Grimm and I've been swept back to my childhood. When I was a kid we had a series of books, one volume was all fairy tales. I read that book over and over and over. I still remember that "Cinderella" was on page 123, that seemed magical somehow. The illustrations were all different styles and I believed them all, I mean somewhere the world looked just like that, not like the boring place I lived. I opened up this new book last night and found some of the same illustrations and discovered the reason they were so compelling was that they were taken from classic editions of fairy tales. I feel like I've discovered something that's been lost for a long time.
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