Just posted this to a forum I frequent:
Feb. 9th, 2004 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpf1. ( ) "Hmpf, will you stop bugging us about [your latest strange obsession], please?"
2. ( ) "Hmpf, you're mildly annoying when you go on about [your latest strange obsession], but for old times' sake I'll just ignore it until you calm down again."
3. ( ) "Hmpf, you're mildly amusing and a bit bewildering when you go on about [your latest strange obsession], but I don't have a whole lot to say about it. Sorry. But go on posting, please."
4. ( ) "Hmpf, I don't care either way. Go on posting about [your latest strange obsession], just please don't expect me to read it or reply to it."
5. ( ) "Hmpf, it's actually kind of interesting to read about [your latest strange obsession], since your taste isn't usually that far off from mine. I might check out [your latest strange obsession] when I come across it somewhere."
6. ( ) "Hmpf, your tastes are strange and you are rather scarily intense about [your latest strange obsession], but I don't mind occasional dispatches from your universe. Wherever that may be."
7. ( ) other. (please specify)
[your latest strange obsession] may be replaced by "Gene Wolfe", "The Borribles", "The Sandman", "Farscape", "Finder", or whatever else my latest strange obsession happens to be.
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Of course, since this here is not a public forum but my LJ, *you*, dear readers, don't get to vote. Here, I get to ramble about my latest strange obsession as much as I frelling like! Mwahahahahahaaaa!
2. ( ) "Hmpf, you're mildly annoying when you go on about [your latest strange obsession], but for old times' sake I'll just ignore it until you calm down again."
3. ( ) "Hmpf, you're mildly amusing and a bit bewildering when you go on about [your latest strange obsession], but I don't have a whole lot to say about it. Sorry. But go on posting, please."
4. ( ) "Hmpf, I don't care either way. Go on posting about [your latest strange obsession], just please don't expect me to read it or reply to it."
5. ( ) "Hmpf, it's actually kind of interesting to read about [your latest strange obsession], since your taste isn't usually that far off from mine. I might check out [your latest strange obsession] when I come across it somewhere."
6. ( ) "Hmpf, your tastes are strange and you are rather scarily intense about [your latest strange obsession], but I don't mind occasional dispatches from your universe. Wherever that may be."
7. ( ) other. (please specify)
[your latest strange obsession] may be replaced by "Gene Wolfe", "The Borribles", "The Sandman", "Farscape", "Finder", or whatever else my latest strange obsession happens to be.
--
Of course, since this here is not a public forum but my LJ, *you*, dear readers, don't get to vote. Here, I get to ramble about my latest strange obsession as much as I frelling like! Mwahahahahahaaaa!
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Wow!
Date: 2004-02-09 02:40 pm (UTC)Read them! They're actually better than the first, a lot more morally complex. And, dare I say it, even darker. And the ending is hearbreaking but absolutely *right*, you know? There's a sentence there, a few chapters before the end, that is, well, I'm repeating myself, but it's heartbreaking in retrospect.
>Michael de Larrabeiti, right? That name stuck in my head as something to scan bookshops and libraries for, before I learned of the wonderful service of interlibrary loans.
Yes.
>The only Gene Wolfe I've really enjoyed was the Sevran the Torturer quatralogy.
That's the only I know, and I've gathered from the net that it seems to be the most worthwhile. It was the discovery of the year for me, last year.
>Love the Sandman. And Farscape, of course.
Apparently, some of our tastes do coincide!
That's nice to know! Especially about the Borribles and Gene Wolfe. Everybody these days seems to love the Sandman, but these two are not as well known, I think!