Here we go again

[j4]

Yes, it's another questions thingy, because I'm bored (and quite probably boring). Stolen from kennedybak this time.


[A] First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

[B] I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
1.
2.
3.

[C] Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! Thank you. Various people have recommended me this in the past, & now it's approaching critical recommendation mass, which means I will probably get round to reading it soon. :-)

[taimatsu]

Yes! I just read it recently and really enjoyed it :)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I thought it was entertaining, and sometimes very clever, but it is Really Silly. No, sillier than that. And while the first one is amusing, by the time you get to the third, it's either fun because it's a retreat to comfortable same sort of silliness, or it's no fun. Annoying avoidance of major ongoing plot issues, and also, while his various silly notions are fun in and of themselves, they don't really work so well tied together into a world-background. [ As opposed to, oh frex, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, which is very funny in some similarly surreal ways but holds together much better ]

The litmus test seems to be, if you like the idea of Richard III being given the Rocky Horror audience participation treatment, you'll like Fforde. [ "When is the winter of our discontent ?" ]

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

As opposed to, oh frex, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, which is very funny in some similarly surreal ways but holds together much better

Now there's a book that I've recently read and enjoyed very much. Completely potty but great fun, especially the running gags about Swansea. Has Malcolm Pryce written anything else?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

There is a sequel, called Last Tango in Aberystwyth, which I did not buy this summer as it was only out in yuppieback, but will get when it's in reasonable-sized paperback. Other than that I know of nothing.