tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post116040317483001966..comments2023-10-24T05:49:04.269-04:00Comments on The Chaliceblog: CC (finally) Answers PG's book memeChalicechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160607439876931642006-10-11T18:57:00.000-04:002006-10-11T18:57:00.000-04:00Goshamighty, CC, thanks for tagging me with the bo...Goshamighty, CC, thanks for tagging me with the book meme. I'll have to give it some thought. Just got home from a great ministers' retreat and am catching up.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160437311659208472006-10-09T19:41:00.000-04:002006-10-09T19:41:00.000-04:00I love Good Omens, I just re-read it a couple of w...I love Good Omens, I just re-read it a couple of weeks ago. Apparently ice cream in the UK really isn't very good -- an American who just came back after living there for years says,<BR/>'In my humble opinion the Brits just don't know how to do ice cream. What<BR/>passes for ice cream in the UK are "ice lollies" -- these<BR/>push-up-made-at-a-factory-shelf -life-of-who-knows- how- long things.<BR/>The Italians on the other hand....'<BR/><BR/>Then again, my feelings on ice cream are such that I've decided that if I made a movie about the apocalypse drawing nigh, set in NYC, instead of doing what Ayn Rand did and having the electricity grid blink out, I'd show the Mister Softee man realizing he can't do his job anymore and show his van driving off with a trail of melted ice cream left on the black road behind him.<BR/><BR/>"Mists of Avalon" didn't make me cry, though I can identify the part that would have made me cry if it were going to: when Morgaine realizes that Viviane has betrayed her trust by having her sleep with Arthur. I bawl easily over familial tragedy... Sally Fields in the cemetary at the end of Steel Magnolias totally got me.<BR/><BR/>But Jason (<A HREF="http://sillysod.blogspot.com/2006/09/yesterday-i-received-email-from.html" REL="nofollow">and </A> <A HREF="http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2006/08/memes_the_word.html#comment-20855135" REL="nofollow">others</A>), if there had been no "Malleus Maleficarum," could there have been a "Good Omens"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160424038152941412006-10-09T16:00:00.000-04:002006-10-09T16:00:00.000-04:00Since I don't usually do the meme-thing on my blog...Since I don't usually do the meme-thing on my blog, I'll answer right here in your comments!<BR/><BR/>1. One book that changed your life?<BR/><BR/>Man, that is a hard one. I guess if you go back to when I really started taking reading seriously it would have to be either "Bulfinch's Mythology" or "D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths". Both awoke an enchantment with a world that seemed more magical than my life growing up in Omaha, Nebraska.<BR/><BR/>2. One book you have read more than once?<BR/><BR/>There are several, but I'll go old-school and say "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy.<BR/><BR/>3. One book you would want on a desert island?<BR/><BR/>An impossible question! Maybe "The Paganism Reader"? <BR/><BR/>4. One book that made you laugh? <BR/><BR/>"Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet. <BR/><BR/>5. One book that made you cry?<BR/><BR/>I hate to admit this, but the first time I read "The Mists of Avalon" I cried like a baby. Same thing with the third book in "The Fionavar Tapestry" (for different reasons). I don't know if I could even get through Mists now, but as a teen I was completely hooked.<BR/><BR/>6. One book you wish had been written?<BR/><BR/>Not really. I wish more of the elders of modern Paganism had written autobiographies before they died.<BR/><BR/>7. One book you wish had never been written?<BR/><BR/>"The Malleus Maleficarum" (The Witch Hammer)<BR/><BR/>8. One book you are currently reading?<BR/><BR/>"The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity" by Richard Fletcher<BR/><BR/>9. One book you have been meaning to read?<BR/><BR/>I've been meaning to read the Buddhist scriptures at some point.Jason Pitzl-Watershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03798973716341545440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160423171607259512006-10-09T15:46:00.000-04:002006-10-09T15:46:00.000-04:00Thanks for answering. I liked Straight Man, but it...Thanks for answering. I liked Straight Man, but it has that middle-aged man's obsession with sexy young women and his own dilapidated body that gets old for me in all the New England adultery fiction (Updike, Roth).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160416648138221492006-10-09T13:57:00.000-04:002006-10-09T13:57:00.000-04:00No, the protocols aren't as disturbing as the Turn...No, the protocols aren't as disturbing as the Turner Diaries, but the Turner diaries are only really taken seriously by nutcases. <BR/><BR/>In some Arab countries, they still teach from <I>Protocols</I> in the schools. <BR/><BR/>CCChalicechickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160414358183076122006-10-09T13:19:00.000-04:002006-10-09T13:19:00.000-04:00I just read The Protocols last night. I'm still di...I just read The Protocols last night. I'm still digesting it, but I'd say it's not as disturbing as the Turner Diaries.indraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05077014748902924745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1160406386543811092006-10-09T11:06:00.000-04:002006-10-09T11:06:00.000-04:00re: The Protocols . . .. Check out Will Eisner's g...re: <I>The Protocols . . .</I>. Check out Will Eisner's graphic novel <A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/fqyrq" REL="nofollow"><I>The Plot</I></A> for a really well done history of the hoax.Obijuanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473011865098984611noreply@blogger.com