I am totally flabbergasted to discover someone who didn't like the movie version of Princess Bride.
Really? I thought everyone knew this about me. Where others find it satiric, I find it insipid and faintly stupid.
Of Wrede, I've read the Mairelon books, the second of which I loved greatly (first wasn't bad either, but was obviously much more for kids), and Snow White and Rose Red (a retelling of the fairy tale in an Elizabethan setting, with elements of Tam Lin thrown in). I tried the Sorcery and Cecilia books, and while they sound like they should be just my sort of thing...they weren't. I'm not really sure why.
I owned Deep Secret for a while, and read about a quarter of it, but it wasn't terribly interesting, and I eventually sold it to the used bookstore. I did enjoy Miyazaki's version of Howl's Moving Castle, though, so I'll look into the book.
My library does in fact have The Rumpelstiltskin Problem. :)
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Date: 2007-06-16 10:52 pm (UTC)Really? I thought everyone knew this about me. Where others find it satiric, I find it insipid and faintly stupid.
Of Wrede, I've read the Mairelon books, the second of which I loved greatly (first wasn't bad either, but was obviously much more for kids), and Snow White and Rose Red (a retelling of the fairy tale in an Elizabethan setting, with elements of Tam Lin thrown in). I tried the Sorcery and Cecilia books, and while they sound like they should be just my sort of thing...they weren't. I'm not really sure why.
I owned Deep Secret for a while, and read about a quarter of it, but it wasn't terribly interesting, and I eventually sold it to the used bookstore. I did enjoy Miyazaki's version of Howl's Moving Castle, though, so I'll look into the book.
My library does in fact have The Rumpelstiltskin Problem. :)