Excellent read. Some of the voices you listed made me go "huh?" (Norm McD? seriously? I'll have to try that without the visual)but I do agree that voices can be straight up hot.

I also think death by fiery crash is a pretty good way to go.

all I hoped for and more- I do love discworld- someday I'll introduce you to some other fabulous worlds..love "flight of the bumblebee" too- especially rocked out by B. Bumble and the stingers..I love british folk rock- richard thompson- and gordon lightfoot.. and I once met Abbie Hoffman- no, i did NOT take LSD with him- grass?- i plead the 5th...

NO YOU DIDN'T meet Abbie! For real? Will you write that down and send it to me? I'm so jealous.

I don%u2019t like Terry Pratchett but I like the sentiment behind %u2018The Turtle Moves%u2019. But I%u2019m getting irritated just thinking about a turtle flying through space, and I think there are elephants involved as well. This concept optimizes the reasons why wont read Terry Pratchett.

Terry Pratchett is the most brilliant satirists since Juvenal, but opinions are another one of those things that need people to believe in them.

Whow I so often forget to edit my comments after pasting them from word. I hate all the %u2019ing tags but since you've already replied I won't repost the comment.
I suppose the crux of it is that I really don't enjoy satire and so no matter how good the author is, I would still battle to enjoy his work. That said I once read a book he was involved in which I quite liked, but that wasn't set on diskworld.
A turtle in space... how can that be?
:)

Not enjoying an author specifically and not enjoying their class are two different things I guess. I can only stand Johnny Cash in small doses, but the fact is he's a great country star. I just hate country music is all. It's not Cash, it's the genre.

You might say that his genre is fantasy, which I love, but he himself puts a satirical spin on it, which I do not love.
It's a turtle... THAT FLYS THROUGH SPACE!
I don't know why im arguing this point, ive only ever read one of the books, honestly the cover art is partly to blame for my dislike of his work.
hehe.

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen. "Good Omens." The first hardback I purchased. Second was "Hitchhiker's Guide" trilogy (Although Dirk Gently was my most fav Doug Adams stuff)

Slacker that I am, I haven't read disc world stuff. But I did read the one he did about the boy who could see the dead and didn't he do one about the video game that ended up being real?

"The water flows forever" I like that - Danny Elfman and Terry Pratchett - high 5!
Flaming comet? excellent!

Hell yeah high 5. I wanted the Farewell Concert version of "Water" but they didn't have it.

TSD - the turtle is a joke. Discworld itself is a joke. It is basically made up of discarded ideas from this world. We used to think that the world was flat and supported by elephants and a giant turtle and even more ridiculous things.

I know its not meant to be serious. Neither is my harping on the subject ;)
Ok last one - how does the turtle eat or reproduce?
I guess I like my literature to take itself seriously. In fact, come to think of it, I feel the same about almost all forms of art or creativity. I know this limits me, but there is so much to consume I get buy ok.

Tims just being antagonistic - he read Good Omens and enjoyed that - he just doesnt want to give in and read Pratchett... He always argues about the turtle and the orangutang... tsk tsk

But he likes the paper model of the Library I am making, pity there is no Orangutang! :-)

ha ha - how cool would that be?

As for your list, meandering as it is, very telling. Voices I love--Peter Gabriel, Billy Boyd, my husband, others.

Favorite Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman thing--Elevator Man.

There's an Archibald MacLiesh poem about the whole being thing--in the context of poetry. I'll try to find it for you.

http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/ liu/english25/materials/macleish.html

Telling of what, though?

Your meandering thought processes?

...you guys have only just figured that out...?

Is meander the same as wend?

that must have been a really high fever for that kind of hallucination! or maybe you'd already taken some meds? ;)
Joan Osbornes voice huh... *goes to look for one of her tracks*

Just stay away from "What if God Was One of Us." That one has been taken out of context and played into the ground.