Ah, The Last Unicorn, how I love thee...

[valis2]

Night came quickly, perhaps because the harpy hurried it on. The sun sank into dirty clouds like a stone into the sea, and with about as much chance of rising again, and there was no moon, or any stars...
Now he sang something cold and low, and the strange trees blew away like dandelion down...
Schmendrick took a deep breath, spat three times, and spoke words that sounded like bells ringing under the sea.

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[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

*shudders*

*runs off to go buy book*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Strung on the loom of iron bars, the web was very simple and almost colorless, except for an occasional rainbow shiver...but it drew the...eyes back and forth and steadily deeper, until they seemed to be looking down into great rifts in the world, black fissures that widened remorselessly and yet the world would not fall into pieces as long as Arachne's web held the world together.

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Is that still? The Last Unicorn? It's wonderful!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

But the harpy lifted her wings, and the four sides of the cage fell slowly away and down, like the petals of some great flower waking at night. And out of the wreckage the harpy bloomed, terrible and free, screaming, her hair swinging like a sword. The moon withered and fled.

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. It's like great sex, only in prose. Beautiful!

[aerynstales.livejournal.com]

Oh my...The Last Unicorn was my ultimate favorite movie as a child, and I have the book, and adore it.

Sigh...need to go re-read it again...

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's soooo good. I think I'm going to re-read it next week while I'm in WI/KS...it is a fast read, and beautiful.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

This is sort of realted and sort of not, but have you read Stardust by Neil Gaiman? If not, go and read it right now, because it's a beautiful little book, and I think you'll like it.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I actually have an advance reader's copy that I received before the book was published, yet I never read it. It's quite nice, though. One day I will flip through it.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

*gibbers*

You have an advance copy? And you never read it?! Aaaargh! Shame on you!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, I know. But I was so scared off by Good Omens...

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Not a Pratchett fan, I take it?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I've tried, really, I've tried. Two of my best friends LOVE him and quote him every chance they get, they read passages aloud to me, and then so many people online use him for icons, etc.

But no, I just don't get it.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Well, seriously, read Stardust. Good Omens has elements that are recognisably Pratchett and recognisably Gaiman, but I think it's the Pratchett part that satnds out. Stardust is very, very different.

[morricone1900.livejournal.com]

i found "the last unicorn" today for $2!

(but I already told you that.) ;)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's a fast read, I promise...go for it!