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Come on, all you Last Unicorn fans. Did you see the animated movie first, then read the book, like me? You have to read it, as is often the case, the book is better than the movie. Writer types like Neil often express admiration for Beagle's other famous book, A Fine and Private Place. I've often heard that AFAPP is better than The Last Unicorn. It's not. It's good, gracefully written, but talky and not much happens. Stardust has too much in common with The Last Unicorn, in both stories, there's a scene where the protagonist is bound to an amorous talking tree. | ||
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I read the book first then saw the movie. (They're sloooooowwwly working on a live action version of the movie.) Didya know Mr. Beagle is going to be writing a sequel to TLU? He finished Two Hearts which is a bridge novella between TLU and the TLU sequel. I never read A Fine and Private Place, buit did read Innkeeper's Song which was enjoyable but no where near on the level of TLU in my opinion. | |||
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(anyone order the book on cd? That thing Neil posted on his blog? Did you get yours yet? When are they shipping? I havne't gotten mine yet) _____________________________ "I know that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones blah blah blah.... but THAT guy is paranoid!" -- Agent Fox Mulder | |||
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Daysleeper and I both ordered. In the last newsletter they sent, they said the book wouldn't be published until June. Haven't heard anything since then. | |||
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TLU hooked me by the first page, by the very first paragraph, I was filled with a burning conviction that normal existence could not resume until I possessed this book.
I loved the butterfly as a kid, and I love him even more now that I get some of the poetry. I should post an exegesis of all the butterfly's references, Shakespeare, Yeats, Rostand, Donne, etc | |||
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This just in re: Two Hearts and the audio book
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Myself I saw the movie first...and I've actually yet to read the book, though it's on my list of "must read when I have time"..still, I can't really see a sequel doing it justice. to me the magic of the story has always been that the continuation is in the readers imagination. We know the unicorn lives, it is up to us to figure out how..to sort of, discover her inside each of us... The movie frightened me somewhat as a child, but I was entranced by it none-the-less. Now that I watch it when I'm older, it seems more poignent, more...serious somehow. There are parts of it that, unabashedly, make me cry my eyes out.. Definitely one of my all time favourites. It caught me a)with the title song ![]()
Gave me the shivers... Anyone heard anything new about the supposed live action version? ******* ![]() ~You're in the Moulin Rouge babe! Your next month's rent depends on it!~ ~We'd be so lost...if we weren't 'us'"~ | |||
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Tori lookalike contest winner, 2001 Member ![]() |
Here's the latest news from the newsletter:
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I agree about the CGI touch-up, somehow that would just seem so wrong. What did they use to create the unicorns in Legend (or *was* that CGI? I think it was before it's time wasn't it?)...because that worked very well indeed... All this reminds me I really should watch the movie again ******* ![]() ~You're in the Moulin Rouge babe! Your next month's rent depends on it!~ ~We'd be so lost...if we weren't 'us'"~ | |||
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Tori lookalike contest winner, 2001 Member ![]() |
I think in Legend they just attached the horns somehow to the heads of horses. | |||
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Yeah that's what I thought...but it still worked well... ******* ![]() ~You're in the Moulin Rouge babe! Your next month's rent depends on it!~ ~We'd be so lost...if we weren't 'us'"~ | |||
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me too! (except for the frightened part). I loved that movie so much from the first time i saw it. It helps that i was fascinated with unicorns and other mythical beasts anyway when i was a little girl. the first time i watched it as an adult, after not having seen it in many years, the scene where Molly first sees the unicorn really grabbed me by the heart.
i didn't see exactly when she meant when i was a little girl, but i understood it then. And the way the actress delivers those lines in the movie . . . btw, i see on IMDB that Mia Farrow, who was the unicorn 23 years ago, is going to play Molly Grue in the new version. Isn't that poetic! | |||
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Oh is she? There's something very poetic and very sad about that... And yes, that bit with Molly really got me when I was a bit older...the other one that has *always* hit a chord with me is
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Okay, now I *really* have to watch the movie... *goes to dig for it* ******* ![]() ~You're in the Moulin Rouge babe! Your next month's rent depends on it!~ ~We'd be so lost...if we weren't 'us'"~ | |||
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Weirdy American Tart Thing Member ![]() |
non sequiter: the search engine on this board works very well! I was able to find a Peter S Beagle thread without being redundant and starting another one. I read The Last Unicorn before watching the movie. TLU remains one of my very favourite books. A Fine and Private Place is, eh, ok. A good one that may be hard to find, I See By My Outfit. it chronicles a trip he made with a friend, on motorbikes, across the USA. There's a collection of short stories that's interesting. Come Lady Death and Lila the Werewolf are good and LtW introduces us to Farrell, a character later used in The Folk of the Air. That book held my interest, but not as raptly as TLU. I love the movie, but the book is really my favourite. The poetry, the poetic flow of the story, the way everything just fits. And yes, it has the same feel as Stardust, a perfectly good, well told story, to entertain us. Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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Okay I'm going to go pick-up this book, that quote above hooked me already. Is the movie also called "The Last Unicorn" and it is animated? | |||
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Yes, the movie is also called The Last Unicorn and it is animated. There's a definite Japanese influence, but I think it must have been done before all the anime stuff. my favourite poem from the book: If I danced with my feet As I dance in my dreaming As graceful and gleaming As Death in disguise. Oh, that would be sweet, But then would I hunger To be ten years younger, Or wedded, or wise? lurvlurvlurv this book and I think I shall read it next, 'cos I got Stephen King's Darktower series thingy book one out of the library and well... halfway through it's still bloody boring and not making a bit of sense! Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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Thanks for the info on the last unicorn. I read the first 3 books in the darktower series and they are good but I found I really had to pay attention to what I was reading just to keep track of all the stuff that was going on. After the 1st three books I lost interest with the long wait in between books - but I guess they are all done now 7 in all. | |||
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that link didn't work for me. Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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Perhaps the link had to do with this (reposted from the Conlan Press site)
It goes on to say how to help with donations/letters | |||
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