Willow Loves Willow

Yeah Weller's one of my favourite Dickensian characters, there's pro's & cons with this sort of thing, but I liked the rendering of his accent, & I recognise it can be hard to consistently depict such in prose convincingly. Another chuckleworthy Person of Note I dig in The Pickwick Papers is the fat page? boy who's always discovered fallen asleep after e.g. eating too much pie.

Luke Yates

Belated thanks to this! That one was a high wire act, but fun -C

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

The word salad comment killed me 😂😂🥗

Kelly Long

Back at the bit with the Death Dogs, Floorwillow pushed himself to the brink of death like four times nonstop, so Clucas burned off all dramatic tension that might otherwise be had by such exertions.

Theodore Lehman

So we read to the end of Chapter 10? I’m finding the going easier now that I don’t bother to reread when I don’t understand what just happened. Much faster.

M Williams

Every time the word 'vizard' comes up I picture Samuel Weller (the manservant in Dickens' "Pickwick Papers"). His dielect replaced w's with v's, and he is paranoid of widows for some reason, so he often warns his friends "Look out for them vidders." So 'vizards' to me sounds like Joe talking about wizards. So at least this book gave me smile by reminding me of a much better book that I read long ago.

Kerry S.

Almost through with this episode, but I have to say that the Dark Web bit from this might be my favorite one ever. I was howling through the second half.

Matt Nelson

Well done on Fanfic or Real, Conor!

Mike Truman

I know this is the last thing you want to hear now but... the 4 non blondes song is called "What's up"

Lucas Neumeyer

Did I misunderstand something or is there now an open invitation to send in memes that make fun of the miscarriage?

Elizabeth Clark

conor describing loss.jpg live to michael j nelson gives me life

amolove

Christian, I pronounce both those words that way. C'mon, how many Ogdens does Conor need?

Theodore Lehman

Yeah, we're not gonna be doing this

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Well, this book finally broke me. I got to the end of the first chapter for the week and tossed it across the room. I just could not bring myself to finish it. I'll try to jump back in for this weeks reading section but if I see one more full page paragraph of italic text I'm going to lose my mind.

Alex V.

Christian

this reads like someone is describing a dream to you.

amolove

When I first saw it, I did look up what a "vizard", and it is apparently a mask worn by women in Renaissance times so they don't get sunburns and thus wrinkles. All of the vizards in the book are masked, hence the "hence the name". Still, supremely stupid.

Urstoff

You know, not much tends to happen in comic books, either. And I say this as someone who's read every issue of X-Men that Chris Claremont wrote (as well as New Mutants and Excalibur, and more).

A. D. Jameson

😘

Brion K