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Narnia... is... odd.

Reading it as an adult you don't have the luxury of childlike wonder and ignorance glossing over the incredibly heavy handed christian metaphors and themeing that goes into EVERYTHING in those books. Which in and of itself isn't the worst thing in the world, but as the series goes on it just becomes increasingly more and more like a weird trip until you hit The Last Battle where you just spend the entire thing going "What the /actual/ fuck am I reading right now?".

They're probably worth one read through as an adult, but there's a reason they only ever tried to adapt 3 of them to film, cause, hooboy.

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And are you enjoying Snow Crash? There are no wrong answers. Don't fuck up.

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I just got "A Tale of Sand," for my birfday. Graphic novel based on a complete screenplay by Jim Henson/Jerry Juhl from their early experimental-film years. It's about a guy running through an allegorical desert while experiencing various post-modern film-trope episodes, while trying to get his last cigarette lit. I might prefer to read the actual screenplay, but I'm american-connotation-"quite" happy that I finally own this book.

Possibly related: is it worth returning to "Infinite Jest"? I got about halfway through while on vacation 2 or 3 years ago, and it has now risen to the "next" position in the literal pile on my nightstand.

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Snow Crash: Now that I think about it, Owen, that seems about right. I did love it but each time I re-read it it feels slightly less than I remember it - the sum of it's parts would be great, and it falls just short of that into "quite good" in my opinion. Diamond Age does a better job at being cohesive ("better"), but is still recognizeably the same author and similar plot arcs IIRC.

Tolkien: I got up to Return of the King in high school and about midway through that had the stunning realization, "I'm not enjoying reading this." It was annoyingly dense reading the entire time and when there was a point that I was satisfied with where the characters were and didn't bother reading through the endless epilogues and denouements (again, as I recall, this was some fifteen years ago).

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Yep, I go back and re-read that one every so often when I need a good dose of someone being torn apart by typewriter. "The morals of a weasel on speed" is my favorite bit.

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1) Wow.

2) Maybe?

3) Could he mean "head" as in "thoughts?"

4) *squint*

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I have it on good authority that the head and the womb may both benefit from being connected.
The putative double entendre will be allowed to stand.

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Aww. I geddit, though--the style definitely isn't for everyone.

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Written by Junji Ito... *flashbacks of Amigara Fault flash through my brain, a cold shiver runs down my spine* ...

Soooooooooooo yep, never coming within 50 yards of that book thank you very much.

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Awww maaaan. I just managed to get rid of the images of the Amigara Fault from my brain. Thanks.

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