Louise Fowler

@perfectfifths Yay! (sorry this is so late)

@jenwriter17

Are either of you on SE now?

@emily-d I am, under the same name 🙂

@emily-d

No, not really. I get their emails and stuff but I don’t really use the forums.

Ha! XD

Yup. ;D

Oh yes, Friday’s sweet.
It’s great. 😉

Have you ever seen or read Little Dorrit?
We love the BBC mini-series (there are a lot of BBC mini-series we like XD), and though I haven’t read the book, Kate has and said it’s really good and close to the movie. I want to sometime. Good ol’ Dickens. It’s rather large though, larger than A…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy

I found The Gorilla Hunters free on Amazon and downloaded it! 😀 Also, I started The Scarlet Pimpernell on Sunday. I’m only two chapters in, but I’m enjoying it already. 😀

I haven’t read much (if any) Dickens, and I don’t know if we have that book – I’d have to have a look. If we do though, I might wait a bit before tackling…[Read more]

Whoo-hoo, double yay!

Heh, I totally understand. 😛 No need to exhaust oneself, no indeed.

@emma-flournoy

I’m currently reading the Peleg Chronicles – probably one of the preachiest trilogies I’ve ever read, and not the best writing, but enjoyable nonetheless. It’s quite silly.

Heh. ;D I’ve heard of that many times. It sounds fun. And preachy. ;P

@emma-flournoy

Very preachy. Definnitely a fantasy book for people who are already Christians, or those who are not but want it shoved down their throat. 😛 XD The realest character, I think, is Fergus Leatherhead. He’s not over-the-top about it, he has internal doubts at times, yet he still has faith. That’s why he’s my favourite character.

Yeah… XD
Neat. He sounds good. Is he the guy who’s sort of like a Noah figure, or am I thinking of something wrong?

@emma-flournoy

lol, no, Noah is the “Noah figure,” even though he doesn’t actually show up in the books. It’s set after the Flood and the dispersion at the Tower of Babel (although the setting feels very medieval, so it’s a bit annoying/confusing). The author didn’t put in any actual Bible figures, as he said he, “personally afraid of adding to…[Read more]

Ohhh got it. XD I think I knew that at one point. Probably got my memories mixed up.

Huh.

Oh no, not that! *headdesk* Ergh. I really don’t like continuity problems. Especially of that sort.

(One thing that’s not really realized sometimes is that dragons ARE dinosaurs… It doesn’t HAVE to be a completely made up thing, because such creatures did exist, at least to some degree. And hey, ravens like collecting shiny things; why not dinosaurs? 😛
And big and little people. Real stuff. I love that most of fantasy is still based off of…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy

lol

Yeah. He wants to be historically and biblically accurate, and I’m thinking, “I have no problems with that, just make it so.” XD

Yes, that is true, which is why he has them there. And the dragons he has really seem like actual, flying dragons. And the bible really says there were giants in the land (at least in Genesis before…[Read more]

Right. 😛

Cool. Yeah. And there were the sons of Anak and the Nephilim too, which I think were supposed to be giants (maybe they were the ones you meant before the Flood, I dunno; been awhile since I was reading in that region of the Bible. ;P).
Have you read any of the Cooper Kids adventure series? I did a looong time ago, and I don’t think I…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy

I dunno either. 😛 The important thing is that there were giants. 😉

No, I don’t believe I have. What makes it so creepy? The last story I read like that was Phantom of the Opera, and one night I couldn’t get to sleep until I had finished it. XD

Yes. 😉

Well, those books as a general rule are pretty creepy ’cause they have to do with real-ish things, but that shouldn’t be alive/happening anymore. Some Christian things, too; it’s a Christian series. But this one especially was creepy because it HAD Anak in it, and he was stalking them, at twilight, and surrounding factors and just the way…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy

XD

Ah, I see. That sounds like it could be really creepy. I’ll either keep it in mind not to read it, or not to read it at night. 😉

From what I’ve seen of the musical (which is about half) it’s nothing like it at all (of course). But I loved the book, despite its fear-factor, and the characters. Definitely worth staying up until 4am.

😉

Lovely. 😀

@emma-flournoy

lol, yes.

Ooh, great!

Oh nice. Have you seen the BBC mini-series of it?

Yayyy! Which movie was it you watched; the Anthony Andrews one? (With Gandalf as Chauvelin? XD) That’s the one I’ve seen. We love it. Not extremely accurate to the book (it’s more a melding of a couple of the books), but still great.

I think I read Robinson Crusoe, a looong time ago,…[Read more]

@perfectfifths Hi Louise, so sorry I didn’t reply sooner, I haven’t been on here for forever! Sounds like fun. 🙂 I want to learn harp and violin 🙂

Yup. XD

I know, exactly. And the LotR appendices are a treasure trove.

Oh…I seem to remember it saying that they gradually became happy again and stopped coming to see the grave, and it got all grown over and stuff.

Yep…the musical isn’t entirely accurate by a long road, but it seems more accurate than a lot of the movies made of the book.…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy

XD

Yes!

Maybe they did, but I don’t know if it was out of forgetfulness. *shrugs*

No, I wouldn’t expect it to be, but I’m interested to see what they did with it. XD

Yeah, but I’d rather wait until I’ve watched it. 😀 I don’t like listening to movie songs before seeing them in the context of the movie/musical (my friend kept…[Read more]

*shrugs with you* XD

Oh yeah, well that makes sense. 😉 I haven’t seen the movie of the musical, but I hope you like. Some people say it’s terrible, but others really like it, so I suppose it depends. 😛

Sort of, yes. XD Yep, that.

@emma-flournoy

XD

I’ll let you know when I do what I think. 😉 I think since I’m not expecting it to be very much like the book, I don’t think I’ll be really disappointed. Unlike, say, The Hobbit. 😛

XD Yeah, I figured.

*snort* Yeah, The Hobbit.
Well that’s good. 😉

@emma-flournoy

lol. See if I ever trust you to make movies out of my favourite book again. PJ! 😛 Although he’s the guy that’s supposed to direct the next Tintin movie, so maybe I should be really worried. XD

So… Les Mis took me about three months and fifteen days to read – not quite as long as TCOMC, which was more like four months. How long…[Read more]

Uh-oh. XD

Eight days short of three months, so not too different. Looong book. ;P

@emma-flournoy

Have you seen the Tintin movie? Steven Spielberg directed the first one and it was really good.

Yeah. XD Very long.

No, I haven’t… It’s not the same thing as Rin-Tin-Tin, is it?

@emma-flournoy

No. It’s a comic strip by Belgian artist Georges Remis (who went by Herge) about a young reporter from the 30-40s and his adventures. They’re really good. And I think the Tintin movie, although done with motion-capture 3D, really captured the spirit of Tintin (I am a big fan, so you know my expectations would be high).

Hey, that sounds neat. I think I remember you mentioning the comic strip at some point in a previous conversation. Well, I hope the next movie exceeds expectations! And with ol’ PJ behind the wheel, I guess you’ve gotta keep your chin up extra high. *solemn nod*

@emma-flournoy

They’re very fun. Yeah, I hope so too. 😉 Recent articles are saying maybe in the next three years.

Sweeet.

@emma-flournoy

So, now that I’ve finished that, what’s the next big classic you recommend I read and discuss with you? 😀