and the ones I can think of hers I know - the Ingo books - don't stand out, but something evidently did, even if I don't know what it was.
I will probably try Ingo just because the series seems to have started with the Mermaid of Zennor, but I'm hoping Talking to the Dead lives up to its title. You might like The Greatcoat. It does really good things with hauntings and time.
*side-eyes people*
I am getting really tired of the stereotype of sensitive liberal snowflakes when the party in power has so far displayed all the fortitude of an ice cube in a blow dryer.
Also, yay, JC! I kind of hesitate to mention that at the risk of sounding worryingly obsessive, but, er, you do know that the BBC 1979 Julius Caesar has David Collings as Cassius, right?
*pencils onto schedule*
I did not—the last time I was looking at casts for the BBC Television Shakespeare, David Collings was not on my radar. Keith Michell as Mark Antony, Virginia McKenna as Portia, Charles Gray as Caesar, okay, sold. Thank you.
My favourite bit is where the guy who dies on top of Cassius at the end, falls dead on him the wrong way round and Richard Pasco has to stand there and continue to give the speech as if he's fallen the right way round.
That's magnificent.
(Also, yay, you like Red Dwarf? How did we avoid each other this long??)
"You would gamble your safety for a mere android? Is this the human value you call—friendship?"
"Don't give me that Star Trek crap. It's too early in the morning."
Red Dwarf (along with Blackadder) was one of my formative college experiences. I was distressingly fond of Rimmer by the end of the first series. A significant percentage of the dialogue went into instant memory: I haven't actually seen the show since my sophomore-year friend group maxed out after the first half of Series VII, but that has not stopped lines like "Today's fish is trout à la crème," "And that includes the time it took to eat the pizza," or "Reboot startup disk, offline for thirty-six hours, and replace head" from seeing regular use in our household. (Also the gazpacho soup metaphor is occasionally really useful.) I believe it was the second piece of television I really cared about as a sentient person, the first being Babylon 5. So, yes. I like Red Dwarf.
We may not have met because I am not at all active in internet fandom: I can talk endlessly about things on friends' journals and my own, but my interactions with the community as such are limited to reading Yuletide and writing fic on an average of once a year (Lackadaisytwice, one Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder, one Pacific Rim, one Narnia, and one Benjamin January). I also don't know if it would have made a difference that until April I was primarily on LJ.
(No wonder time shenanigans happen - what do you expect if you re-use part of a house that's been occupied by a black magician who's lived for 150 years by taking life from other people? Steel would have been even more frowny if he'd known.)
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I will probably try Ingo just because the series seems to have started with the Mermaid of Zennor, but I'm hoping Talking to the Dead lives up to its title. You might like The Greatcoat. It does really good things with hauntings and time.
*side-eyes people*
I am getting really tired of the stereotype of sensitive liberal snowflakes when the party in power has so far displayed all the fortitude of an ice cube in a blow dryer.
Also, yay, JC! I kind of hesitate to mention that at the risk of sounding worryingly obsessive, but, er, you do know that the BBC 1979 Julius Caesar has David Collings as Cassius, right?
*pencils onto schedule*
I did not—the last time I was looking at casts for the BBC Television Shakespeare, David Collings was not on my radar. Keith Michell as Mark Antony, Virginia McKenna as Portia, Charles Gray as Caesar, okay, sold. Thank you.
My favourite bit is where the guy who dies on top of Cassius at the end, falls dead on him the wrong way round and Richard Pasco has to stand there and continue to give the speech as if he's fallen the right way round.
That's magnificent.
(Also, yay, you like Red Dwarf? How did we avoid each other this long??)
"You would gamble your safety for a mere android? Is this the human value you call—friendship?"
"Don't give me that Star Trek crap. It's too early in the morning."
Red Dwarf (along with Blackadder) was one of my formative college experiences. I was distressingly fond of Rimmer by the end of the first series. A significant percentage of the dialogue went into instant memory: I haven't actually seen the show since my sophomore-year friend group maxed out after the first half of Series VII, but that has not stopped lines like "Today's fish is trout à la crème," "And that includes the time it took to eat the pizza," or "Reboot startup disk, offline for thirty-six hours, and replace head" from seeing regular use in our household. (Also the gazpacho soup metaphor is occasionally really useful.) I believe it was the second piece of television I really cared about as a sentient person, the first being Babylon 5. So, yes. I like Red Dwarf.
We may not have met because I am not at all active in internet fandom: I can talk endlessly about things on friends' journals and my own, but my interactions with the community as such are limited to reading Yuletide and writing fic on an average of once a year (Lackadaisy twice, one Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder, one Pacific Rim, one Narnia, and one Benjamin January). I also don't know if it would have made a difference that until April I was primarily on LJ.
(No wonder time shenanigans happen - what do you expect if you re-use part of a house that's been occupied by a black magician who's lived for 150 years by taking life from other people? Steel would have been even more frowny if he'd known.)
Seriously! That can't have helped anything.