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[challenge entry] Sorry


Will anyone get it?

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(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Wed 28 May 2008, 21:52, archived)
# *cheated*
I loved that book. Diana Wynn Jones rocked at teenage books when I was a teenager. Fire & Hemlock was my favourite.

I don't want to see this film in case it shits up the book for me.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 28 May 2008, 21:58, archived)
# It might
It does not represent the book very closely, but is
good in it's own right if that's your kinda thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Wed 28 May 2008, 21:59, archived)
# I'm not actually that big on anime
or is it manga?

That whole 'Belle and Sebastian' look...
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 28 May 2008, 22:01, archived)
# HMC is the only thing like that I have seen
I do recommend it
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Wed 28 May 2008, 22:04, archived)
# cheated as well
it's not that it's obscure given that i read through pretty much all of dianna wynne jones when i was young (power of three was my favourite. though fire and hemlock still stands up well, not least because it's basically a re-imagining of two old scots fairy tales) but the image is pretty obtuse...

still, a very big woo for referencing dianna wynne jones :) also, buy her tough guide to fantasyland if it's still in print again, it's very good indeed.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 28 May 2008, 22:01, archived)
# mr b3th is huge into folk music
and now I know the actual stories behind Thomas the Rhymer etc, Fire and Hemlock goes even deeper. And I live near Bristol, too.

Archer's Goon was ace too.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 28 May 2008, 22:03, archived)
# that it was
and tale of time city. and eight days of luke. and homeward bounders, another of my favourites, that one.

the sequel to howl's moving castle was a bit gash if i remember right though.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 28 May 2008, 22:05, archived)
# Tale of time city!
I'd completely forgotten about that! I LOVED that book!
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 28 May 2008, 22:07, archived)
# They reissued loads of her books recently
like over the last four or five years. If I were you I'd buy the best of them -- they actually are worth reading as an adult, even if they don't take all that long...
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 28 May 2008, 22:08, archived)