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torrain_circles) wrote2007-11-13 11:04 pm
torrain_circles) wrote2007-11-13 11:04 pm
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Small pleasant things.
First, I have begun watching The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.--it's hokey and occasionally a little stiff, but it's funny and has that oddly gentle/sweet mood that dashing heroics often evoke. I mean, it also has villainous railroad robber barons withering away to dissolving skeletons before your eyes, but I consider that to be an fairly essential element of heroism.
Second, I picked up Wolf's Complete Book of Terror from the library--purely on spec, just a case of a saffron-orange cloth-bound book where the spine was so scuffed that I only noticed the word "TERROR" and saw the little screamy-face icon the library uses--and it's great. (Anthology; the contents list is here, maybe two-thirds of the way down the page.) I've read about half of them before[1]; it's just nice to sit down with a heavy old book and quietly work through them.
Sadly, when I say "picked it up", I mean "borrowed it", not "bought it at Ex Libris". I need to buy a copy.
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[1] I actually reread Boucher's "They Bite" about two days before I'd picked up the book. It was included in an anthology of stories based on real crimes--a short story by Abraham Lincoln, Ellison's "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs", etcetera--which was kind of interesting. Then I picked up Wolf's book, and it opened to the middle of "They Bite", again. I kept expecting a reference to show up someplace in a chat or post somewhere. You know how it is when you get several references to something, you start expecting another one...
Second, I picked up Wolf's Complete Book of Terror from the library--purely on spec, just a case of a saffron-orange cloth-bound book where the spine was so scuffed that I only noticed the word "TERROR" and saw the little screamy-face icon the library uses--and it's great. (Anthology; the contents list is here, maybe two-thirds of the way down the page.) I've read about half of them before[1]; it's just nice to sit down with a heavy old book and quietly work through them.
Sadly, when I say "picked it up", I mean "borrowed it", not "bought it at Ex Libris". I need to buy a copy.
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[1] I actually reread Boucher's "They Bite" about two days before I'd picked up the book. It was included in an anthology of stories based on real crimes--a short story by Abraham Lincoln, Ellison's "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs", etcetera--which was kind of interesting. Then I picked up Wolf's book, and it opened to the middle of "They Bite", again. I kept expecting a reference to show up someplace in a chat or post somewhere. You know how it is when you get several references to something, you start expecting another one...