So at
The Book Festival I saw and heard
Terry Pratchett and
Harry Turtledove. They were brilliant and charming and stirring and fun. I'm 100 pages into SMALL GODS right now and it's a holy hoot. The hilarious truth in this man's scenes are killer. Hahahahahaahhahaahhahahaha! He has been slaying me right from the beginning. Course, this is the 13th title in the Discworld Series, but I felt I could jump wright in. And I did and here I am and it stands alone mightily and I shall wread many more. I want to wrecommend him to everyone. It wreally is like a bitta Douglas Adams and a fista Vonnegut. It's wrelentless!
I finished The Odyssey a coupla weeks ago. It was so super awesome grande mega good I can't wait to wread the Lattimore translation, apparently closer to the Greek. I also want that
BEOWULF with the Old English on the facing page. I've been in and out of Edmund Spenser's Fairie Queene, glorious and firm in its gaze and tale! Gotta pick some Harry Turtledove alternative history titles to try. Some sound amazing ... And of course, just generally flipping through hundreds of books a week at work on the 5th floor of the James Madison Building on Independence Avenue. Muscle cars, The Beatles, Johann Gutenberg, Puerto Rican slang, Rommel's attack strategies, The Harlem Hellfighters, Mary Tudor/Henry VIII fiction, piles and piles of vampire fiction, lotsa lotsa so much stuff, I should take notes ...
