He eats wild radishes in bed. Crunch, crunch, crunch, all night.

[taotrooper]

I just read Two Hearts, which is the sequel for The Last Unicorn ♥ Of course, it's not as magical, and the ending is just painful because of poor Lir. Woe.

But still, I'm shameless and I loved it because Schmendrick and Molly are so canon and cute! It's just... damn, it's like one of the best canons I've had for a couple of mine, like, ever. I didn't expect it to be so in-your-face. Yeah, TLU's ending had some burning subtext -they leave together! by own choice! singing!-, but it skyrocketed to hypertext in this story.

a) Dude, it's been decades and they're still together travelling?
b) The touching and the embracing continue.
c) Endearing bantering, just how I like it. Molly is practical while Schmendrick lives in his little corner of dorky, masochistic weirdness that's what happens when you live a long time without aging; ask Clow and Eriol!.
d) MOLLY'S SPEEECH. She's all like "but sometimes I want us both to be immortal and shit so we could be forever like this D:" That's a NEON SIGN of canonness.
e) They're so married the narrator girl ships them!
Molly: you can't argue when he's like that ¬¬U
Sooz: but good wives don't argue their husbands :P
Molly: LOL! we're not married, we're just, er, together (<- actual word, says it twice)
Sooz: oh, but you look married
Molly: pft, I'm never marrying that dork, he eats in bed! XD
Schmendrick: *at Sooz* ^_~

No, really. It's just awesome for characterization and post-ending interaction. I think I'm obsessing over this pairing in an unhealthy way, but it's no surprise.

Comments

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

OOh I never knew there was a sequel. Thanks :)

And Molly/Schmendrick are so sweet together. They are both sort of "ordinary" but that is what I love about them.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I was told on the last post XD

I think it's funny how he gets to be more "ordinary" after he gains his magic. But then, maybe he had serious issues because of his ineptitude and curse to act behave sincerely. Now, Molly is truly an ordinary woman, but she does like extraordinary beings in her life as her touchstones (the unicorn, captain Cully, Schmendrick...)

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Yay, gracias! Hace mucho que lo quiero leer no lo encuentro.

Me quedo con la versión en castellano :D

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

La versión en castellano es más amigable de leer porque es un doc.

Apenas salgas de la tesina TIENES que leértelo. Es tu tipo de libro, no me cabe duda. Va mucho de la inmortalidad y la naturaleza humana, tiene meta de cuentos de hadas por todos lados, y hay un torpe mago wannabe de ojos verdes con pasado misterioso.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Con este libro me pasa igual que con The Princess Bride: sé que vi la película cuando era muy chica y que me gustó, pero no me acuerdo de nada más que eso. Así que es prácticamente como leerlo sin saber nada (bueno, lo básico sí, pero eso es lo mismo que con cualquier libro más o menos conocido). ^_^

... nada más me faltan dos semanas ... *repite su mantra*

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Pero eso es mejor así ^_^ Porque en ambos casos que mencionas, la versión de película tuvo que cortar el backstory de los personajes secundarios, por lo que saberla de cero es Muy Bueno.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

OMG I love you!


and words on the canoness and loveliness of Schmendrick/Molly

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

:D

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I don't know if your Two Hearts has the introduction, but he says that he liked Sooz so much he cannot abandon her and will eventually write a full length novel as a sequel.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I didn't care about Sooz as a character so much, but I'm all for it. That universe is so cool, and seeing more of Schmendrick or Molly would be great, since she's now some sort of surrogate (grand?)daughter of sorts for them.

Also, I kinda wonder what happened to Lir's kingdom...

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way, but I love female protagonists and good ones are few and far between. So I'm sure I will end up liking the full length novel.

(frozen comment)

[connorfc.livejournal.com]

Not free e-books, I'm sorry to say: stolen copyrighted material. Which I had to block.

We are looking into doing legit e-book editions, in multiple languages, of Peter's work. Until the day he gives his permission for an edition, however, distributing his material in this fashion isn't right.

I'm glad you love Peter's writing, but please don't do this to him again. He is living just above the poverty level because publishers and studios have stolen from him for decades. That isn't something his fans should be doing, not even with the best of intentions.

-- Connor Cochran
Business Manager for Peter S. Beagle

(frozen comment)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Yes, I understand. I just removed the links.

Also, I was planning to import his books after I paid my own debts, so I will be giving him money in a near future. Those e-books were given to me by someone else and I did wrong to distribute the files, but I normally do buy later what I read illegally if I like it. I just do this when I cant find the local translation or an English version in my city, but I do support the authors afterwards, as soon as I have the money for that.