Idiots May Hold Ostriches

[spectralbovine]

As you all know, my opinion is worth more than everyone else's. In a recent Gallup poll, respondents were asked to choose between the following two options:

The opinion of spectralbovine is worth more than everyone else's.

I would like to be eaten by a rhinoceros.

100% of respondents chose the first option!Here are three things, then, that have received my

Comments

[dark_roast]

Well, you liked Descent, and hated Pulse -- so, yes. I also select Option A. For now. *searches e-bay for a rhino gun*

[upanashad]

"The line, it's a-very small, but the performance is a-so big."

Hee!

[soundingsea]

You *liked* The Time Traveler's Wife?

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Apparently we approach and appreciate books differently. I detested the sense of unchangable destiny, the treacly tear-jerking, and the whiplash of jumping around in time which characterize that book.

[spectralbovine]

I loved it, and it immediately became one of my favorite books.

I don't think there was a sense of unchangable destiny. I mean, Henry even gives Clara a list of where to meet him, essentially creating his own destiny...well, by making it fit his timeline. I think the sense was more of a mix of destiny and free will, which fits my own worldview. I was impressed with how skillfully plotted the whole timeline was and didn't mind the whiplash. As for the treacly tear-jerking, I think it's a book that manages to coast along on the strength of its prose for pages of nothing happening.

[briasoleil]

Agreed. I loved the book, as well. It's easily one of my favourites. I didn't mind the switch in times, because I'm a big fan of non-linear narration. It's the postmodern in me.

But you still have to read Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Because it's exquisite.

I want to get The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for my nephew, but I think he's still too young for it.

[briasoleil]

Also, the child is going to come back with henna-ed hands - well, she did last time - and I'm going to be infinitely jealous. I want my hands, arms and feet henna-ed.

[allthelivesofme]

Note to self: look for the Michael Chabon novel on the next bookstore-run.

And I've heard a lot of good things about The Time Traveler's Wife, but haven't read it yet. I'm a sucker for time-travel romances, though. *clutches copy of Somewhere in Time* I kinda wish that they'd kept Matheson's original title, Bid Time Return, for the movie, though. I love that title.

[spectralbovine]

You forget that the actual eating can involve any sort of poking, goring, and stomping that the rhinoceros wishes to engage in during the meal.