Modern Fairytales

[Callistemon]

(Story removed - feel free to use as general book/story discussion thread.)

 

[GafferGragz]

Nice! I get flashbacks to DNAs HHGTTG omnibus. I've had my towel ready now for some 30 years. And Don't Panic stamped on my cheek.

 

[Callistemon]

My husband would probably get your reference there, @GafferGragz, but I will need it explained to me!

 

[GafferGragz]

Douglas N. Adams, the author of 'The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy' and all of its .... lets say he also did struggle to be on topic. It was written for BBC radio but overflowed into theatre, computer game, follow up books to the story etc. The omnibus is about 7 cm thick. Read it, do.

 

[Callistemon]

Ah, I actually read that when I was in high school, @GafferGragz, just didn't recognise the acronym! We had this really fun typing teacher who put me and a few others onto Douglas Adams - this was a favourite of hers. (And yes, to the young whippersnappers out there, back then you learnt to type and thanks to that I can type very fast on a computer keyboard too! ) I distinctly remember spending nearly as much time laughing as typing in that class because she always made it fun. I still remember one of the crazy poems she made us type out and illustrate off by heart:

A dingo trapper way out west
Had fungus growing from his chest
He'd scrape it off when it was ripe
And smoke it in his corncob pipe

Did you like the Holistic Detective Agency?

 

[GafferGragz]

I kind of got hooked on Terry Pratchett and his Diskworld so I missed it and still have not gotten there.

 

[Callistemon]

My husband has all these. I've read a few of them but have to say I prefer Neil Gaiman's writing, though of course when they both put their heads together they came up with Good Omens, the film version of which I loved and want to watch again soon! Also the British drama version of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal - hilarious!