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actually you'd probably end up as Susan, wouldn't you

but both John and I would be Edwin

at least we can agree that FB would be Lucy

I feel like I've been insulted somehow but now I have to go re-read a book to remind myself how that has happened...

Susan was the independent-minded older sister who stopped believing in Narnia

In The Last Battle, Susan is conspicuous by her absence. Peter says that she is "no longer a friend of Narnia", and (in Jill Pole's words) "she's interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations." Similarly, Eustace Scrubb quotes her as saying, "What wonderful memories you have! Fancy you still thinking about all those funny games we used to play when we were children," and Polly Plummer adds, "She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can." Thus, Susan does not enter the real Narnia with the others at the end of the series.

okay, yep, that's me... well maybe not the nylons

maybe if I only believed in Narnia I could not kill every gumdrop tree I try to plant ;_;

"...nylons and lipstick and invitations." Sounds like a Bryan Ferry lyric.

reading that paragraph reminded me how much I hated all the Narnia travelers by the end of the series

like, shut up you judgy fucks, only one of you actually knows how to LIVE and the rest of you are actually dead

^^^ more evidence that I desperately need to re-read? Apparently the whole series fell through the gigantic gap in my memory.

Can I just go ahead and blame nursing school? Because that is my inclination.

they're all actually dead in the end, but susan doesnt get to heaven iirc

Hot cross buns exist, and are the only thing we ever actually thanked the british for i think

The proselytising in the Narnia books got a little tedious after awhile.

I guarantee that when you reread, you will find yourself rooting for most of them to die

yeah, but at the time i think it would have gone over most readers' heads.

it's interesting because in many ways it's the exact opposite of Pullman's His Dark Materials but at some point near the end of both you find yourself really rooting for an apocalypse to come sweeping through and get rid of all the people doing things you think are stupid

or maybe that's just me

His Dark Materials I remember a little better - first book was ace, second one was pretty good, third one was still creative but I remember thinking the end was disappointing

felt the same way about 'green eggs and ham'

Lately I've gotten the notion while reading fiction that writing a good ending is really, really difficult. I've run into trite endings and a few that didn't make any sense at all.

xp LOL

It started early for you, then.

i want to say yes.....

Damned fish in '1 fish, 2 fish' got on my nerves, too.

agree with you on endings, particularly with anything fantasy-y

There has to be a word for that

Stephen King Syndrome

lol, funnily enough I was thinking specifically of a book by Stephen King's son, Joe Hill (_Horns_). Great concept, the end is a mishmash of wtf happened?

At least w Stephen King I usually understand what he was trying to get at...

no, i meant fantasy-y

Pat endings don't satisfy. Many non-ending endings don't satisfy. Improbable endings don't satisfy. One of the things I most adored about Maugham short stories as a kid was how often they had perfect endings.

Also took it into my head to read the first _30 Days of Night_ graphic novel which was all great concept and terrible everything else.

the movie is actually pretty decent

xp Michael, that's how I felt about Ray Bradbury short stories when I was younger, but now I'm afraid to go back and re-read them because I'm afraid I'll think they suck now

they don't, not at all

"The Veldt" is still terrifying

Dan - it's in my Netflix queue, just haven't been in a vampire-y mood since reading that. Loved the first two _Walking Dead_ graphic novels and am lobbying for more of them for Mother's Day.

Oh, man, "The Veldt" is what got me hooked...

I used to go to the library and use the CARD CATALOG to find Bradbury books that weren't on the HSTNGS shelves. I remember using little slips of paper to make requests. Sometimes it even worked!

http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm

Man, I love the internets...

Yeah after a bunch of musing I recently realized that in retrospect I pretty much hated the Panera series as well.

well what do you expect when you read a series that's about Caesar salad flavored coffee drinks?

to be up all night burping anchovies

I feel like there's probably some lower GI effects possible here, too, but I'll refrain from elaborating.

I come to bury caeser, not to make pastries and beverages that taste like him

there's an obvious, environmentally conscious solution here that will save you time...

SOYLENT GREEN IS CAESAR!!!

btw everyone here loves me enough to go buy a copy of The Mountain Goats' All Eternals Deck this week, right

You get a royalty? Niiiice, I figured you got a flat fee.

no royalties, I just want to be able to say "I was on an album that debuted in Billboard's Top 200"

yeah, I was making a horribly formed not-even-a-joke. Congrats on being on the record, btw!

^_^ TY

whoa, I didn't know about that! Cool!!!