Oh, dear - ::busts out laughing::

[minkhollow]

Again, it should be noted, as I originally cam across this last night. Why did I ever think Stardust would be a boring book?:
"There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks."
I mean, come on, that just SCREAMS geekdom. I can imagine Dexter's computer saying that. Or maybe Telemain. It's multi-fandom crossover geekdom at that! (In other news, am nearly done with the book. This is good as it's due back at the library Saturday.)
SFBC flyer loves me this month. Five Pratchett books, and while Reaper Man and The Wee Free Men are the only ones of those I haven't read yet, I wouldn't turn down a copy of The Amazing Maurice. Or Thief of Time. (Fifth one's Hogfather; own that already.)
Dad's plan is for me to be comfortable enough with driving to do some of it over vacation. We leave the 20th; I've done 45 minutes of driving since I got my temps renewed. (The driving was at least a few days ago, but that was just around the school parking lot.) Mom said we're going to do some later, but I expect this will work out like it usually does and it'll get forgotten. Am slightly less scared than I was (but only slightly).

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[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Stardust: It's a long time since I read a book which gave me such an amazing sense of deja vu. Oh, not that I'd read something similar before, but that it felt like Gaiman had leapt into my unconscious and shown me my own imaginative landscape, the one you only usually can access on the edge of dream. EVERYTHING in it was resonant. It was just wow!

Also, oddly, the person who wrote the back cover blurb spelled Tristran's name wrong - as Tristan.

[minkhollow]

Didn't quite come away with that feeling, but I'll definitely second the "just wow!"