Dover coloring books
Jun. 19th, 2004 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramY’know what’s a good, cheap source of reference material for illustrators? Dover coloring books. Yesterday I stopped off at Coliseum Books after work and picked up Fashions from India and Empire Fashions. Four bucks each!
I also got The Eyre Affair, the first of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next novels. I was a bit annoyed that these were filed in Literature; I’d been looking in the science fiction section, ’cause where else are you gonna look for a book about a time traveler from an alternate universe where people can step into works of fiction? I guess the publisher figures this main audience for this series is the sort of people who think SF will give them genre cooties. I’m wondering if I should read Jane Eyre first. And maybe Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.
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I also got The Eyre Affair, the first of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next novels. I was a bit annoyed that these were filed in Literature; I’d been looking in the science fiction section, ’cause where else are you gonna look for a book about a time traveler from an alternate universe where people can step into works of fiction? I guess the publisher figures this main audience for this series is the sort of people who think SF will give them genre cooties. I’m wondering if I should read Jane Eyre first. And maybe Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.
Then Games Club at
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Date: 2004-06-20 03:04 pm (UTC)Actually, though there were bits where I was sure there were in-jokes, I think on the whole I may have enjoyed it *more* for not knowing how 'the original' was 'supposed' to come out. But I'm twisted.
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Date: 2004-06-20 04:41 pm (UTC)*hugs*
LMG
Karma
Date: 2004-06-21 01:13 am (UTC)Occasionally, a prestiege or academic publisher will turn out an edition of one or another, but Dover's rather homely-looking paperback doubles (Star Maker and Last and First Men, Odd John and Sirius) are always available.
Stefan Jones
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Date: 2004-06-21 01:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-21 03:47 pm (UTC)The Ambercon we're going to next weeking has a SpecOps based RPG. Someone (Evil Stevie, perhaps) should license this for a game.