I don't think we go much on litigation here, but we do a lovely line in pointy sticks.

Bring back Tom Baker!!!!!!

MuseSusan Wrote:
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> Is it guaranteed that a person who likes Dr. Who
> and Jane Eyre would also love The Eyre Affair? I
> mean, of course anyone with any taste at all would
> love Jasper's writing, but aside from that… I ask
> because when I suggested The Eyre Affair to a
> couple of friends several years ago, they didn't
> really like it.
>
> I haven't seen any Dr. Who although I've absorbed
> a fair amount of background knowledge, but it
> seems to me that it has a similar kind of good
> old-fashioned sci-fi wackiness, and that a person
> who likes that kind of storytelling as well as
> great literature would enjoy the irreverent but
> loving style of the Thursday Next books. I don't
> know this person very well, though, and I want to
> be reasonably sure.
>
No, next question.

> What do you fine folks think?
Lots of things, far too may for this thread.

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I don't care if you poke me with pointy sticks. I still like Tennant! So there. Nyah. Thhhhpppptttttt.

Such bravery - are you drunk?

oh god I wish I was - that would make Monday SO much more bearable.......

........it doesn't do much good to Tuesday though.

well in fairness, Tuesday is a genius.

We have

Tuesday Weld

and

Thursday Next

and

Man Friday.


Why are there not individuals first named Monday, Wednesday, Saturday?

I think one of the offspring from some unidentified fan driven person is named "Sunday" in part but I am gloriously insulated from wishing to know this.

Baron Samedi/Saturday.

And isn't Thursday Next's mother called Wednesday?

..and Pugsley's sister is Wednesday Friday Addams



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Hmm...At the risk of having risk of having donuts and peanuts and popcorn thrown at me, I don't like Dr Who. I used to like it when I was 10, but then I grew up, which I feel, the programme never has. It stil seems to be aimed at kids or at best, adolescents. I agree that it is most definitely more fi than sci, and my sci-fi nut hubbie (who loves Fforde, Pratchett, RR, Adams, Neil Asher, Iain M Banks, Peter Hamilton, Python, Star Trek, Red Dwarf etc) also doesn't like Dr Who.

Now,I sometimes feel like asquare peg in a round hole here (well, most places actually) because I like none of the above mentioned, except Ff obviously. I can only account for it in that Jasper,unlike all the above, sets his stories firmly in this world. And when I read it, it feels like 9/10s reality and 1/10 unreality generously laced with off-beat but intellegent wit.

Now there's the motto for the fforum:

OFFBEAT BUT INTELLIGENT

Can we manage to get Eclectic in there as well?

Try flicking the switch.

Chang saccepted:

OFFBEAT BUT ECLECTICALLY INTELLIGENT

.. and again, in Latin this time?

How about:

Intelligens.Inusitus.Inexpectatus.

I get Inusitus in the summer, but I think that is mostly down to my hayfever!

Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina