December Daily: comfort media

[resonant]

dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather

Comfort media, then. Mostly books.

5. Lilo & Stitch.
4. Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor.
3. Samuel Delany's Babel-17.
2. Cyrano de Bergerac. (I'm not sure what translation I had in high school -- possibly the Louis Untermeyer one, from Dover Thrift? A while back I read the Anthony Burgess one and I liked it OK, but of course there are lines I remember vividly from that old translation that Burgess just doesn't do justice to.)
1. Terry Pratchett -- the complete works, really, but I think my most re-read is the seasonally appropriate Hogfather.




Upcoming prompts below the cut.





21 summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
22 summerstorm - top 5 poems?
23 fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
24 fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
26 ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
27 azurelunatic - 5 reasons you enjoy a party in the dark times of the year
28 james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.
29 laurenthemself - Top five snack foods (sorry, the requested date got taken between the time you posted and the time I edited)
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31 mergatrude - what five complements/encouragements would you give your young self.

Comments

[desireearmfeldt]

I can't currently look up what translation my copy of Cyrano is, but I like it a lot -- it does a great job with the poems, and it's metered as the original but sounds quite natural.

(I also have it in French. And I've seen it in Czech, which I speak not at all, and Spanish, which I speak a tiny bit.)

[resonant]

The kidlet has studied French, and every now and then I hatch a plan of trying to rope them into reading it with me in tandem (the spouse and I have done that with Spanish with good success) but it's a big undertaking and I've just never followed through with it.

[runpunkrun]

I read Hogfather about this time every few years. It's also the Pratchett book I've read the most.

[resonant]

It was also my first Discworld book. A great introduction.

[lunabee34]

Lilo and Stitch is such a good movie. As the mom of two daughters with a 10.5 year age gap, it gets me in allllll the feels.

[resonant]

Oh, I still can't make it through Aloha 'Oe without crying.

[dorinda]

I recently discovered that a work colleague of mine has never seen Lilo and Stitch. It's one of those situations where I feel certain she'd like it, but I don't want to try to sell her on it too strongly, because I worry about that backfiring... So I tried to do the 'oh, it's very good, I think you'd like it', but in a calm way without really letting my enormous enthusiasm pour out.

And you have reminded me that I've never actually read Cyrano myself, only seen film adaptations (or loose adaptations like 'Roxanne'). Hmm!

[resonant]

I really liked "Roxanne," actually. And I was curious about the version that came out recently with Peter Dinklage, but what I heard of the music seemed so awful and they seemed to be trying to make Roxanne into one of those girls who chafe at being girls ... did you see it?

[dorinda]

I haven't. I was interested when I first heard about it, because I like Peter Dinklage and find him very handsome, but I never followed through and actually tracked it down. Hearing about an "I'm Not Like The Other Girls" Roxanne, though, yikes, maybe not.