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Lois McMaster Bujold:
One thing I value very much in books is if they make me laugh or smile, but I'm very rarely amused by the overtly comic. Perhaps one of the reasons I love your books so much is that they can be deeply insightful to comic. So ... I am in need of something to cheer me up. Can you recommend anything? Books by preference, but movies okay too. Thanks!
Lois McMaster Bujold
This seems a good question to throw open to the readers at large -- more suggestions in the comments, folks?
Depending on my mood, I have been fond of the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer. Middle Pratchett is always good -- very early Pratchett hasn't found its voice yet, late Pratchett sometimes tends to more dark. Jennifer Crusie for contemporary (or, by now, then-contemporary) romantic comedy. Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series isn't comedy, but narrator Peter Grant's voice and views are pretty amusing at times. Megan Whalen Turner's YA fantasy series starting with The Thief is also very re-readable (try to avoid spoilers, going in.)
I also like animation and anime -- pretty much all the Pixar and Dreamworks offerings, Miyazaki of course; other, quirkier things. Paprika is a fave feature-length film, Mushi-shi, while it is not comedy -- it might be "gentle horror" -- a favorite series. The series "The Wallflower" is... not readily describable.
Some good Shakespeare comedy on film includes the 1997 production of Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter, and the nicely goofy 2000 production of Love's Labour's Lost done as a 1930s Hollywood musical.
Ta, L.
Depending on my mood, I have been fond of the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer. Middle Pratchett is always good -- very early Pratchett hasn't found its voice yet, late Pratchett sometimes tends to more dark. Jennifer Crusie for contemporary (or, by now, then-contemporary) romantic comedy. Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series isn't comedy, but narrator Peter Grant's voice and views are pretty amusing at times. Megan Whalen Turner's YA fantasy series starting with The Thief is also very re-readable (try to avoid spoilers, going in.)
I also like animation and anime -- pretty much all the Pixar and Dreamworks offerings, Miyazaki of course; other, quirkier things. Paprika is a fave feature-length film, Mushi-shi, while it is not comedy -- it might be "gentle horror" -- a favorite series. The series "The Wallflower" is... not readily describable.
Some good Shakespeare comedy on film includes the 1997 production of Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter, and the nicely goofy 2000 production of Love's Labour's Lost done as a 1930s Hollywood musical.
Ta, L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I'm really enjoying the Penric novellas; thank you for writing them and taking us back to the world of the five gods. Much of my reading these days is done via audiobook and I was wondering if you knew whether Mira's Last Dance was going to come out in audio format as well?
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just rereading Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and I keep wondering : Is it Ivan Xav like "have" or like "save"? Or something else? My mother once said that no matter how a name is spelled, it's pronounced the way the owner pronounces it. And he is in your head.
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